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#89 Saint Patrick’s Day

Normally if someone were to wake up at 7:00 in the morning, take the day off work, and get drunk at a bar before 10:00 a.m., they would be called an alcoholic, and not in the artistic, edgy way that white people are so fond of.

On March 17th, however, this exact same activity is called celebrating St. Patrick’s day. This very special white holiday recognizes Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland who helped to bring Catholicism to the Emerald Isle. His ascetic life is celebrated every year by white people drinking large amounts of Irish-themed alcohol and listening to the Dropkick Murphys.

It is also the day of the year when you can make the most gains in your social and professional relationship with white people.

Most of the time, white people consider celebrations of European heritage to be racist unless they omit large swathes of the 16th through 20th centuries. But since the Irish never engaged in colonialism and were actually oppressed it is considered acceptable and encouraged to celebrate their ancestry. For this reason, 100% of white people are proud to claim that they are somewhat Irish.

A big part of St. Patrick’s Day is having white people feel particularly upset at the oppression of their ancestors that has in no way trickled down to them. If you find yourself talking with a white person who tells you about how their great grandfather was oppressed by both the English and the Americans, it is strongly recommended that you lend a sympathetic ear and shake your head in disbelief. It is never considered acceptable to say: “but you’re white now, so what’s the problem?”

It is also worth noting that on this day, there is always one trump card that never fails to gain respect and acclaim. When you are sitting at an Irish bar and someone orders a round of Guinness, you must take a single sip and while the other white people are savoring their drink, you say: “mmmm, I know it sounds cliche, but it really is true. Guinness just tastes better in Ireland.”

This comment will elicit an immediate and powerful response of people agreeing with your valuable insight. This statement also has the additional benefit of humiliating the members of your party who have not been to Ireland (and thus cannot confirm this proclamation). Having not traveled to Ireland and consumed a beer that is widely available in their hometown and throughout the world, they will immediately be perceived as provincial, uncultured, and inferior to you.

It is also strongly encouraged that you memorize the lyrics to “Jump Around.” It will come in handy.

White ethnicities are great because white people get to implement them selectively. Nobody knows or gives a damn if you’re Irish until you put on a bunch of green, wear a plastic hat, and drink yourself stupid. If you’re Asian though everybody’s like “where are you from?” They may or may not ask this really slow and loud, as it the asian person can’t undestand English well. If the Asian person then tells the white person they’re from Boston or something like that it really confuses them. White people get to be from Ireland or Boston depending on their mood and whether it’s a holiday.

I’m Irish and extremely white, more like a pale ghost. I’m not ashamed of my roots. [I do wish sometimes I could get a tan…. O’ well that equals skin cancer later in life]
Saint Patrick’s day is just another excuse to get drunk.
Not much into drinking anymore but I still like the music. I’m playing “Bad Religion” and “Bouncing Souls” right now……;)

Great observation. I’ve noticed a larger trend in European descendants viewing themselves as part of a larger monolithic culture, rather than acknowledging the different developments of each country/territory.

#13 It’s simple: The Irish in America have so inter-married with the Poles, WASPs, Italians, Scandinavians, Germans, etc. that the people who call themselves “Irish” really should call themselves what they are:

White people are also known to celebrate Christmas so long as by celebrating you mean arguing about the importance of putting up a menorah side by side with every coniferous tree dressed in tacky shit.

I don’t get it. Are the things here representative of all white people and what they like? I looked at this blog long and hard and I could not find anything I didn’t like and I am a discerning white person. Should I feel troubled by this? Help.

In the first half of the 19th century, some three million Irish emigrated to America, trading a ruling elite of Anglo-Irish Anglicans for one of WASPs. The Irish immigrants were (self-evidently) not Anglo-Saxon; most were not Protestant; and, as far as many of the nativists were concerned, they weren’t white, either. Just how, in the years surrounding the Civil War, the Irish evolved from an oppressed, unwelcome social class to become part of a white racial class is the focus of Harvard lecturer Ignatiev’s well-researched, intriguing although haphazardly structured book. By mid-century, Irish voting solidarity gave them political power, a power augmented by the brute force of groups descended from the Molly Maguires. With help, the Irish pushed blacks out of the lower-class jobs and neighborhoods they had originally shared. And though many Irish had been oppressed by the Penal Laws, they opposed abolition?even when Daniel O’Connell, “the Liberator,” threatened that Irish-Americans who countenanced slavery would be recognized “as Irishmen no longer.” The book’s structure lacks cohesion: chapters zigzag chronologically and geographically, and Ignatiev’s writing is thick with redundancies and overlong digressions. But for the careful reader, he offers much to think about and an important perspective on the American history of race and class.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. –This text refers to the Library Binding edition.

You really oughta quit now while you’re ahead (even though you are in no way ahead). Not only did you just blatantly ape the premise of your site from this guy, but you totally suck at it. All the posts are over-brief and not a lick humorous. This blog is funny because it’s original and well-written…if you really want to pay homage to it, you should start a blog in that sort of vein.

Gay Condo, you are so ariwolfin’ myopic. I am as white as one can be and everyone always ask “whats your ancestry?” People always this I am jewish when I am rockin my beard and that is really annoying. Do beards on a white man automatically = Jew and if so who created this rule?

White ethnicities are great because white people get to implement them selectively. Nobody knows or gives a damn if you’re Irish until you put on a bunch of green, wear a plastic hat, and drink yourself stupid. If you’re Asian though everybody’s like “where are you from?” They may or may not ask this really slow and loud, as it the asian person can’t undestand English well. If the Asian person then tells the white person they’re from Boston or something like that it really confuses them. White people get to be from Ireland or Boston depending on their mood and whether it’s a holiday.

St. Patrick’s Day in the States is the douchiest of all holidays. It’s worth mentioning that the admiration that so many East Coast Americans have for the mythical concept of Ireland is as disturbing as the tribal nostalgia that American Jews feel for Israel. As unrealistic as American Irish-American Catholics feels about the Republic, so do American Ashkenazy Jews feel about the state of Israel. Both group suffer from historical nostalgia, and their non-rational tribalism in the form of excessive financial support of nativist groups in both Ireland and Israel.
On this stupid holiday let us reconsider the way in which we foolishly worship arbitrary international myths and, by extention, perpetuate the violence of oppressed groups worldwide.

The hell Irish people aren’t white!! And to all who are offended by this post–get the fuck over it–St. Pats is so tried and true white across the U.S., Canada, Britain, and Ireland and elsewhere–I say green beer to all –but do not lose sight of history

Middler: re “the douchiest of all holidays”: you could not be more right.

I am part Irish and at this time of year, I lie about it. I never wear green. If anyone had the temerity to pinch me I’d have him (or her) arrested. I have a sense of humor about things that are funny, or at least fun. St. Patrick’s Day is neither.

Tomorrow I’ll wear black … like I do every year. And every other day, come to think of it.

Why isn’t there a Mutt Day in the United States? People with the least well-defined racial backgrounds would do well on Mutt Day. We could have special pub crawls just for that day: if you were lucky, you could hit a German bar, an English pub, an Irish bar, then a sushi joint. And so on, depending on who you were.

I’m done with the “let’s celebrate being this one thing” business. The half century of that is over. Celebrating the mess is better — and it fits far more people.

My parents like to pretend they are Irish (they are in fact 1/8th) once a year. When I was a kid, they would force feed me boiled cabbage and corned-beef on St. patricks Day. Have you ever had corned-beef? It’s fucking disgusting. Oh, and it is boiled as well. I think it may be 65% fat. Awful stuff.
However, I do like soda bread, another St. Patrick’s tradition. It so dry that you have to put about a pound of butter on it to make it chewable.

I love how non-Irish people think it’s OK to dress like leprachauns (sp?) and puke in the street to celebrate Saint Patrick. Do we celebrate Martin Luthor King Day by acting like stereotypical black people, or Columbus Day by acting like stereotypical Italians?

The only reason it’s not controversial is b/c Irish people aren’t the types to go around bitching about stuff like that.

Irish people build this country and were credited for winning the Civil War for the North by Robert E Lee, and how does America honor them every year? Mocking their culture by putting on green plastic hats, drinking themselves silly, pretending to be Irish, and puking in the street.

“How The Irish Became White” is supposed to be a good book. I’ve seen it in some whiteness studies lists.

I’m sure a fair amount of Americans have some kind of ‘Irish blood’ in them though. How the Irish were able to integrate into the WASP community is an interesting topic. Intermixing of European groups was acceptable because the concept of whiteness via skin tone had changed. It wasn’t acceptable, and still is somewhat taboo to go outside of perceived race/culture of other groups.

All so true. Every white person I know is convinced they are Irish. I maintain that you are not Irish unless you are Catholic, then you have something to complain about. However, I am just saying that because I am white, Irish(ish) and Catholic and I want to be reconized as being special and “ethnic”. I have even been to Ireland and forced to eat corned beef, soda bread and cabbage.

I’m Irish-American and Catholic (both of my parents are immigrants and emigrated here in 1983). We go to the parade and all, but mostly on St. Pat’s we go to Mass and then have dinner as a family (my parents, grandparents and all 7 of us kids). There’s beer then, ’cause hey, we’re Irish.

I love St. Patrick’s Day. I’m super white. And I’m cool with that.

P.S. I also love Bastille Day and Canada Day. Two more occasions to celebrate being white, though I am neither French nor Canadian.

#48 transparent: “I have even been to Ireland and forced to eat corned beef, soda bread and cabbage.”

No beer nor dispensation this Paddy’s, because it’s in Holy Week. Which is going to make the corned beef, cabbage and soda bread feel *especially* Lenten this year! But stale Russian kvass ought to wash it down well.

The U.S. had a massive immigration of Irish, who were a huge part of the workforce that brought this country into the industrial age. So yes, the holiday became generally popular amongst the urban/industrial working class, and eventually worked its way up the ladder.

Blacks were mostly in the rural workforce during that age, and when they flocked into big cities, industry moved out. So St.Patty’s Day tends to be a white, working class holiday (but its festive-boozing nature attracts a broader audience of course).

This one isn’t pointing out white/upper class affectations. It’s just cultural history.

#50 Only Mexicans use the word “Anglo”, because it is not a word in English. Only blacks– excuse me, Blacks– spell “white” with a capital. So the whiteness of “Anonymous” is open to question.

#53 I shan’t repeat his name. White people are supposed to have manners. Cussing in front of womenfolk is very, very unwhite. Charm lessons from Mr Jared Taylor are in order here.

#63 Mr Portnoy, named for the noted Jewish self-abuser: “European-American” is an oxymoron, unless you mean Quebec. The original Anglo-Americans descend from the Anglo-Saxons (“Anglo-” is a prefix in English), who turned their back on the continent around 500 A.D. (Yes, I said “A.D.”) So anyone who considers himself a “European-American” isn’t finished assimilating.

st. patty’s day – such a non-holiday. i always forget it’s happening until some restaurant or another starts using shamrocks to collect charity money from me.

white people love being irish. it’s really annoying. when i found out last year that i myself am 1/4 irish, i was pretty ticked off about it. i don’t want to live, eat and breathe boston sports teams, Guiness, and Good Will Hunting.

Listen, when it comes down to it I just don’t like brown people or Jews. Ok? I’ll try to intellectualize it, ignoring any non-racial causes of everything from drugs to global warming, but really I just believe in genetic superiority and the elimination/subjugation of said groups.

I’ve never finished Roth’s novel, but I have read The Turner Diaries seventeen times and await the day I can take to the streets, showing those mud people whatfor.

Whether or not I enjoy anal copulation with other men, which I do, is not the issue here.

#66 Portnoy (apparently the real one): “Anglo is an often used word for WASPs, scots-irish, and ‘rednecks’.”

Yes… by Mexicans. Check out this polite and eloquent letter from an early “American Renaissance”:

“Sir — We studied your February 1993 issue at our caucus meeting last night, and we were startled to notice that you slapped Americans of European origin with the term ‘anglo’ on page one, and that you more or less validated the negative term, ‘white non-Hispanic’ on page three.

“If we accept a name imposed on us by Latinos like ‘anglo’ or if we accept a name in the process of being imposed on us by Asians like ‘Caucasian,’ then we have marginalized ourselves.

“S_ W_, Resisting Defamation Caucus, San Jose, Cal.”

“On page one, Miss Evans wrote, ‘: …”Anglo,” to use the currently fashionable term that reflects the Hispanic perspective.’ Surely, she made her distaste clear enough. ‘White non Hispanic’ was a direct quotation from an application form. — Ed.”http://www.amren.com/ar/1993/03/

#74 Not to mimic this post, but I’ve been to Ireland and they say it, and ask if one can tell the difference. They don’t want a prized possession to taste the same everywhere in the world. OF course, you tell them it’s better there. That’s just being cool.

ALL Guinness comes from one brewery, in Dublin, so it stands to reason that in Ireland it’s fresher.

For anyone who gives a crap what I think, the most important factor in a Guinness is the glass. It must be thin glass, like a wine glass, and full-sized pint. Those fake, thick regular pint glasses they use for Bud Light tap are totally unacceptable, and one should always ask first about the glass.

#74 “ALL Guinness comes from one brewery, in Dublin, so it stands to reason that in Ireland it’s fresher.”

Actually, no. There are several satellite Guinness breweries that distribute the beer to different regions, and the difference of taste is due to the different water sources.
There is even a Guinness brewery in Nigeria, for example.

Damn I just looked it up and apparently Guinness is brewed in 50 different countries.

The Guinness in Dublin did taste different to me, but not better. Just different. In fact, the Irish version seemed to have less of a bite. Less hoppy, maybe. American Guinness, when poured correctly and served in a proper glass, is just fine.

“Do you not get it, lads? The Irish are the blacks of Europe. And Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland. And the Northside Dubliners are the blacks of Dublin. So say it once, say it loud: I’m black and I’m proud. ”

The Boston Marathon is another exceptionally white holiday. All white people in Boston know somebody who is running in the marathon (ideally for a charity) and it’s an excuse to skip work and start drinking at noon on a random Monday in April.

YES. thank you for posting this shit. the blog is pretty hilarious, and i am glad that you did not forget to include saint patty’s.

yeah, so why is it that saint patricks is the utlimate international white holiday?

it seems like white people congregate together no matter what country they are in to celebrate this spurious occasion celebrating white history. guess there aren’t too many other opportunities (given colonization, oppression and all), so this is one of the few major validated occasions where white people can actually embrace the history and culture of a white country, and people go apeshit on it. including no so cute interactions with green beer and pinching (not irish, btw).

i know even irish people probably get tired of pushing away the crowds of other white people trying to adopt this as their own holiday. especially when the same people did not treat irish that well in their early years of immigration to the us.

I know white people who use pretty much any holiday as an excuse to throw a party…not that it has anything to do with whatever history or ethnicity is behind it. Who really cares about the alleged history behind all these days, they’re just reasons for everyone to throw down.

Besides, at this point in time the accepted origins of these “holidays” are dubious at best. It’s just fun!

the irish came to this country and lay with the blacks and hispanics and got drunk. they fought with the italians that have infinitely better cuisine and then headed out west where they now vote republican.

If you want to be extra pretentious insist that Guinness not only tastes better in Ireland, point out that a real Irishman could “tell you what county they are in and how far they are from the brewery” based on the taste in the counties… (Yea, I have heard that BS)

From there you can point out the reason it tastes so much better in Ireland is because it is not pasteurized… Neverminding the health concerns, you should shake your head and bemoan corporations “ruining a good thing” by, you know, trying to prevent disease…. Also, since white people know what is best for you, point out with great sadness that the irish have developped a fondness for Budweiser and, sadly, many have made it their beer of choice… (“Corporations have made them stop drinking the alcohol I associate with my sterotype, er ‘quaint ethnic image'”)

Today is also a good day to engage in really affected “Irish Whiskey Appreciation” and saying things like “Truly the best single malt Irish Whiskeys compete with any Scotch!” (as though your subjective opinion on what people like is somehow objectively definative… What can people say? “Is not!” “Are too!”)

Curiously, the Irish were not always considered white. At the beginning of the 19th Century, there was serious debate about whether blacks or the Irish were lower. In the old Five Points district of Manhattan — roughly where China Town is today — Irish and blacks mingled both socially and sexually, to the dismay of high-minded reformers who sought to clean up the gang-dominated, crime-infested neighborhood.

Irish and black people actually united to fight racist mobs in the riots of July 1834, and again in the Draft Riots of 1863. The latter was probably the last signficant cooperation between the Irish and blacks in this country. Already by that time, the Irish were well on their way to becoming white.

I’d like to chime in by saying that your article is very true and kind of sucks. There is no greater thing than a day devoted to drinking and being irish. It’s an excuse for anyone with one ounce of fun in them to go out and party.
Thinking back…by “kind of sucks” I really meant that your article really sucks something awful.

I remember reading the Boston Globe’s Sunday travel section a couple years ago. Every year there is a Sunday in March dedicated to travel in the Homeland. Anyway, truth be told, SPD was no biggie in Ireland until the 80’s when so many Boston Irish, etc. started coming for the quiet, minor religious holiday. It was only then that the locals capitalized on the event.

The article also referenced that MGD was the preferred quaff of the local hipsters (read: WP) and that Guinness was enjoyed chiefly by old men and American tourists!

I got to spend last St. Patrick’s day in a crowded bar, where a drunk guy with a stupid t-shirt told me he ‘digs Mexican senoritas’ (I’m not Mexican), my ass was grabbed at least 6 times the entire night to and from the bathroom (nah, I’m not flattering myself, these were real squeezes), and a sad, drunk white chick cried to me in the bathroom about how she was 30, single, and would probably die alone. Then she vomited a centimeter away from my shoes. Ah, memories!

nope not here we start our celebrations the weekend before & it lasts till the 18th ( offically hang over day) right now @ the most famous irish newfoundland bar here in newfoundland ( rumored to be the best place to celebrate if your not in ireland) theres standing room only the drinking & music started @ 9 am . since saturday the bar has only been closed from3 am till 9 am …. so pope or no pope were partying today !!!!

That may be the worst piece of revisionist history I’ve ever read. Irish people never teamed w/ black people regarding anything. The Irish resented them the moment the stepped off the boat b/c they were being made to fight for a group of people who they feared where going to take the jobs they came here for in the first place.

During the draft riots of 1863, Irish tensions boiled over, and they basically destroyed half of NYC, lynching blacks all over the place along the way. The two races never “teamed up.” I don’t know where you got that.

I was so disappointed the other day. I asked my mom if we had Irish in our blood and she said yes. It made me feel so common, and definitely the Wrong Kind of White. I wanted to be more Norwegian, because as a white person, Viking blood is so much cooler. http://joseelretardo.com

So…if anyone hasn’t noticed by now, there is a poster (#9 Stuff College People Like), who has created his/her own blog that mimicks this blog’s format only it is FULL OF SUCK unlike this one. Whoever you are, please stop your blatant copy catting and spare the public from reading your LAME attempt at humor. Your writing style is absolutely horrible and your blog itself is an EPIC FAIL.

is amazing to me how, some fucking pathetic people until this day relate absolutely everything with hatred for jews!…… “The superior race” get the fuck out of here, and all those antisematic people why dont you do the world a favor, and take your pathetic life and euthanize yourselves!

is amazing to me how, some fucking pathetic people until this day relate absolutely everything with hatred for jews!…… “The superior race” get the fuck out of here, and all those antisematic people why dont you do the world a favor, and take your pathetic life and euthanize yourselves!

There isn’t a group of people on earth who are as self-aggrandising as the Irish. Here in England, of course, we’re supposed to feel enormously guilty over the way they’ve been treated – even if, like me, you in fact come from very poor English stock. It’s this guilt – coupled with their endless whining – that led to the Northern Irish ‘peace process’ (which, as every sane person knows, is just another name for ‘letting vicious murdering thugs walk free’). Which had to happen, of course – how could we not understand their pain of living under the British flag? So great, in fact, was the pain of living under the flag of one of the world’s finest democracies that they felt the need to routinely murder innocent people (including women and kids). Lovely, lovely people.

Funnily enough, the Irish always forget to mention their cowardice and collusion during World War II.

Oh, and anyone who proclaims to be Irish who isn’t actual Irish born and bred (i.e. most Irish-Americans), is an utter, utter c**t.

The Irish are a more diverse tribe of White People than many may realize, with migrations occuring over many centuries from the Iberian Peninsula, Scandinavia and other regions of Europe. Haplogroup R1b is the most frequent Y-chromosome haplogroup in Western Europe (particularly in Spain, Scotland, Northern England and Ireland) and many residents of Northern Spain and Ireland are therefore “racially” identical.

Now, I’m off to eat some White People food–and start drinking heavily like a true Irish-American.

P.S. I do believe providing the labor us synonymous with “building” something. I would say that of the many of miles of U.S. railroad that my great-grandfather and his contemporaries built. I would also say that of the swimming pool and the pool house a group of Hondurans built in my back yard last year. I provided the capital (I’m rich and white) and they provided the labor. THEY built it, not me–and I would never try to pretend to take that away from them. I’m not going to invite them over to swim in it, though.
My White friends, Asian colleagues, Hispanic clients–and my black nephew–are more than welcome.

Relax, Paul. I know you’re upset about the Irish getting a pass on the whole blowing people up thing but remember that 1) they really only blew up English people, so, whatever and 2) they were drunk at the time.

I like to ratchet up the annoying factor by being half-Asian and then just Irish enough to make a complete c**t of myself (as Paul would say) by spending the day eating corned beef and dressing my kids in green. I don’t drink Guinness or green beer though because my liver is 100% Asian.

Zelda, just because you flag up your shortcomings and display stunning self-awareness, it really doesn’t mean you’re any less of a c**t. Really.

Plus the comment about English people being blown up (your ‘whatever’) isn’t you being, y’know, a bit hip and chill (as opposed to my uptightness) – it’s you being a revolting moral degenerate. People died – children – and you think it’s funny? C**t.

Everything on your list is something I like.
After looking at the list, my mother declared that she liked everything on this list too.
As did my brother.
I told my non-white girlfriend about the list and she uses it as a reference for dealing with my oh-so-white family, but came to me in a fury on Saturday over the lack of St. Patricks Day being on the list (I dragged her barhopping in chicago this weekend…she was surrounded by white people). I’ll tell her it’s up. She will be pleased.

Pack it up, pack it in
Let me begin
I came to win
Battle me that’s a sin
I won’t tear the sack up
Punk you’d better back up
Try and play the role and the whole crew will act up
Get up, stand up, come on!
Come on, throw your hands up
If you’ve got the feeling jump across the ceiling
Muggs is a funk fest, someone’s talking junk
Yo, I’ll bust em in the eye
And then I’ll take the punks home
Feel it, funk it
Amps it are junking
And I got more rhymes than there’s cops that are dunking
Donuts shop
Sure ’nuff I got props from the kids on the Hill
Plus my mom and my pops

I think you’re funny. I’m a total c**t (really, ask around) and not super smart (brain is 100% Irish) but when I’m really into a cause my instinct is not to go to a satirical blog and try to interject a serious discussion into the comments section and then expect people to take up my banner.

Waving the children around to bring people to their cause is the hallmark of the douc!ebag, btw. Top o’ the mornin!

Paul, before you go all Jack the Ripper on me keep in mind that this blog is satirical. I’m sure there is a white-on-white crime blog out there just waiting for your input. I mean, I know you guys are supposed to have a dry sense of humor but I’m worried that if you bump into something you’re going to crumble into a heap of dust.

Dude, everyone claims to be Irish on St. Pat’s because virtually everyone (that I know) IS part-Irish. But then, I always sort of suspected I was from the Wrong Kind of White People… :p So I have no idea if this actually applies to Real White People or not.

Oh yeah and that. But really, no one brings that up anymore. Besides, they’ll just tell you that Princess Diana erased that blot on their legacy when she saved the children. Its all about the children.

White people like celebrating Oktoberfest in spite of the fact that Germany has a rather colored recent history… No offense meant to Germans/y (I am German), just thought it was worth pointing out that this is another white holiday that white people enjoy celebrating

I love St. Pat’s and Oktoberfest. Hey, I really am part-Irish (er, Irish Protestant, though!) and the husband is from German stock. Most of the Wrong Kind of White People really do have some Irish in us, though, so what’s the big deal?

At least we’re not appropriating “people of color” holidays. LOL. Anti-racists have even less of a sense of humor than internet white nationalists, which is saying something.

There is no “wrong kind of white people”, And get away with nothing, why are you ashamed of being white when NO ONE else is ashamed to be what they are…have some fucking pride!! Happy paddy’s and fuck the pope

I’m not at all ashamed of being white. I just know that when upper-middle class liberal whites preach about White Privilege, it has never even occurred to them that all white people aren’t exactly like they are.

And my people aren’t from their particular little tribe. So I wish they would stop speaking for us. We don’t really need them to… but they need us to further their own self-serving quasi-religious agenda of white guilt.

Nailed it again! I never understood why so many white people talked about being Irish until you spelled it out. Though I’m half Irish and definitely the “wrong kind” of white, I always wondered why (myself included) whites so proudly proclaim they’re Irish. I guess it works the same way for Jews, too? I mean, regardless of the fact that they seem to be at the top of any institution from finance to media to medicine, there’s a whole lot of oppression that you can talk about as if it ever touched you.

Yeah, I might take off two days…
I’m a throw some rhymes out there
Maybe y’all come check out my lyrics blog
At lyrica1.wordpress.com

You wanna know the world’s most played stereotype
Yeah, it’s called bein’ muthafuckin’ white
You automatically assume
I like sittin’ on the porch wittlin’ wood
And spittin’ backy in a spitoon
And dancin’ a fuckin’ shindig unda the moon
I don’t even dance
Though I do like beans and tatas
Still half of y’all muthafuckas wont give me a chance
Cuz y’all be some muthafuckin’ hataz
Unda-rataz
Let me tell ya when it comes to lyrical tongues
Ole Evil Eye be the greatest
And I don’t even like Nascar
Caint stand most country music
I don’t go two steppin’ at the bar
I get too sick
Wit’ tha shit you caint fuck wit’
The rhymes that I spit
Are phenominal
So go ahead and lable me
It aint phazin’ me, it’s comical
Anything you can throw at me
Would be a minor obstacle

true true true, a day to stay inside and avoid the college kids.
i think the NCAA sponsors St. Paddys day. Plus, everyone is like from the 4th grade with wearing green as not to get pinched. ridiculous.

“Irish and black people actually united to fight racist mobs in the riots of July 1834, and again in the Draft Riots of 1863. The latter was probably the last signficant cooperation between the Irish and blacks in this country.”

That’s because the blacks starting leading the racist mobs who were trying to kill the whites (oops .. I meant the Irish).

Wow. This post really brought out the xenophobia in some of the readers. This blog isn’t supposed to be an academic survey of the “stuff white people like.” It’s a tongue-and-cheek look at some of the things that (mainly middle to upper-class) whites tend to do that are similar. Although I must say that some of the things tend to be so widespread in this demographic, it is by no means the foundation of a sociological study.
Stop taking the fun out of these posts with all of the racist and bigoted comments that have popped up, especially on this thread.
To everyone else, have a good day. Have a Guinness. And… absolutely wonderful blog, by the way. Haven’t had this many laughs in a bit. Keep it up!

St Patrick’s Day always makes me think of the Irish Americans who raised money for NORAID and supported terrorism throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s and then decided they didn’t like it in 2001. On behalf of all of those (like me) who grew up listening to bombs going off, I would like to wish them a very special St Patrick’s Day.

And just out of interest, how is your new found war on terror progressing?

I am half-Irish yet have never much liked St. P’s (all times of year are great for Guiness after all!) yet was never driven to disgust by the day until I witnessed a lame chick who got married on St. Patrick’s day, gave out pint glasses as her wedding favors, went to Ireland on her honeymoon and was photographed downing a pint in her wedding dress. Now I really hate the day. It’s just an excuse for white American drunks to claim their (distant) heritage (or worse: fake-heritage) as an excuse to be drunk and stupid in public.

And do you amateurs slamming green beers and moaning about the ‘mother land’ know what Irish people (i.e. people who..live in Ireland!) call you? PLASTIC PADDIES. They also roll their eyes and laugh at you when you make the trek to Ireland then tell the nearest strangers in the bars about how you are Irish, too! And excitedly hope that will forge a bond.

Fuck that. I’m third generation Irish (mixed with German) and I applaud my ancestors for getting the fuck out when it was time. Hang out during a famine? Or get on a boat and roll the dice? More like thinning the herd.

And anyone who has been to Ireland knows that in the factory itself – in the bar- they serve that shit room temperature. They have one tap for cold Guinness for the American tourists and the warmer stuff they give the Irish.

The Irish were always “white”. They just weren’t considered civilized by a lot of the establishment in 19th Century America. And yes, there was a difference between the two concepts.

“Irish and black people actually united to fight racist mobs in the riots of July 1834, and again in the Draft Riots of 1863.”

Black people were rioting against the draft in 1863? Shame on them if it was true because the main cause of the riots was the fact that poor whites (many from Ireland) didn’t want to fight a war to “free the slaves”, who they could care less about. I find that idea absurd.

The only time I don’t see White people in flip-flops is when there’s a distinct possibility of frostbite. And even then they’ll wear flip-flops. I wonder if that’s the reason for the Weather Channel: to let White people know when they can wear flip-flops.

“Chad, the weatherman said it’ll be partially sunny and above freezing today. You know what that means?”

This has been mentioned before in the thread, but it must be made clear –

Those of us who are almost all Irish, or totally Irish in heritage DEFINATELY stick our noses up at the St. Patrick’s day thing – we get bored looks on our faces and do that whole “it’s not really my thing” thing. Actual Irish people celebrate the holiday, but straight down the line Irish Americans use the holiday as a way to define their “irishness” by not taking part.
I’m sure there are 4 zillion people that are going to shrilly and indignantly tell me that I’m wrong, but I can only report what would go on in my neighborhood when the “green beer day” rolled around. Maybe sport a green sweater from Gates, but that’s about it.

The funny thing about White Nationalists is that they honestly believe that their comments and links are “in our face” and will shock us with the truth (man) to the point where we have to join their group and share in their paranoid fantasies. The reality is, most of us are too mentally stable to ever join such a hysterical and sadistic gang of low-functioning dickwads.

The funny thing about White Nationalists is that they honestly believe that their comments and links are “in our face” and will shock us with the truth (man) to the point where we have to join their group and share in their paranoid fantasies. The reality is, most of us are too mentally stable to ever join such a hysterical and sadistic gang of low-functioning dickwads.

Well, I just have to say that even though I’m not even white I have so much fun on St. Patricks Day and I enjoy the guinness as much as an Irish do. In my opinion some people should be more open minded. It’s true that this is an Irish Holyday and it was meant to be for white people but, what the heck we all can enjoy it. We live in a multicultural society and we have to learn to adapt to it.
For example the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro Brasil was created for people from Brasil to Brasilian people only, today thousands of tourists from all over the world travel to Rio De Janeiro every year to be part of the carnival. so lets forget about races or religion lets enjoy St. Patricks’ together and CHEERS!!!

Most repair manuals are far more interesting than your blog, and far less turgid to read…I’m curious to know what possessed you to even think that you were capable of being entertaining or interesting to read? Calling your blog dull is a gross underestimation of just how tedious it is.

I can think of one thing that loads of white people like. It’s a blog called ‘Stuff White People Like’. This allows the white person to show how tolerant and self deprecating they are. ‘Wow, look at me and how able I am to laugh at myself!’ Unlike some other races, self-deprecating humor is a way of feeling less guilty about some of the more sinister things that their race has done through history. It is definitely advisable to show your friend this blog and chuckle heartily while you say, ‘wow. This guy has really got us down.’

White folks love to fill out those brackets and talking on and on about the “purity” of college basketball and how the “kids play as a team for the love of the game” and not for money like the really talented players.

You need to do something on cuisine or the food network or Top Chef. White people all love to think of themselves as “chefs,” when in reality they couldnt stand the long hours working alongside diverse groups of people they proclaim to be tolerant of, when they have their graduate and arts degrees.

239 – Or maybe it’s just good writing and it’s funny. Besides, anyone who feels guilty for things other people do just because they happen to share the same skin color has other issues, like being an idiot.

OK, ready to clean up all today’s misinformation and anti-White musings.

#93 “Do you not get it, lads? The Irish are the blacks of Europe. And Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland. And the Northside Dubliners are the blacks of Dublin. So say it once, say it loud: I’m black and I’m proud. ”

Actually Sinn Fein is marxist and ironically they love non-whites and other niggers since they need more votes. Their motto is: British out, Nigerians in.

The true blacks of the new Ireland are true niggers, see here:

“A Nigerian man who arrived in Ireland as an asylum seeker seven years ago has become the country’s first black mayor.

Rotimi Adebari has been elected as first citizen of Portlaoise in County Laois.

The move was the result of a voting pact between Fine Gael, Sinn Fein and independent councillors.”

OK, ready to clean up all today’s misinformation and anti-White musings.

#93 “Do you not get it, lads? The Irish are the blacks of Europe. And Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland. And the Northside Dubliners are the blacks of Dublin. So say it once, say it loud: I’m black and I’m proud. ”

Actually Sinn Fein is Marxist and ironically they love non-whites and negros since they need more votes. Their motto is: “British out, Nigerians and Chinese in.”

The true blacks of the new Ireland are true honest-to-God negros, see here:

“A Nigerian man who arrived in Ireland as an asylum seeker seven years ago has become the country’s first black mayor.

The move was the result of a voting pact between Fine Gael, Sinn Fein and independent councillors.

Actually, Patrick did not take catholocism to Ireland-catholocism did not exist yet….of course the Catholic church would argue against that since they claim Peter was the first Pope (though he WAS married *gasp*)

So much disinformation and White-hatred around, it needs to be pulled up by the roots!!

#137 Italians have Columbus Day and st. joseph day on Mar-19

#138 An anti-semite is someone who the Jews hate. Over-used slur. Yawn.

#142 It was England that declared war on Germany, not the other way around. If Ireland stayed neutral how is that cowardice or collusion. nice try. Besides, in another 100 years England won’t even be White or English, so I don’t know what you guys think you “won”. Plus kids in 100 years won’t even know who dead Churchill is, that’s already the case today, but the ideas of Hitler will never die, whether you like him or hate him.

Irish and Protestants really need to bury it, considering they are both getting overrun with pakis, muslims, jews, and other semites.

Actually, when it comes to deflecting anti-Anglo hostility, appeal to Celtic ancestry of any sort will do the trick – Scots, Welsh, Cornish, Manx. Even though Glasgow was the “second city” of the British Empire, Scotland was granted perpetal immunity from imperial responsibility by virtue of having fought the the Battle of Bannockburn five centuries earlier.

After a brief moment in the sun when they sacked Rome in 387B.C., the Celts pretty much cornered the market in being Europe’s favourite losers (apart from a certain well-known village of indomitable Gauls). So much so, in fact, that no-one would believe you if you said that Scotland is named after Irish colonisers, or that the Romans had to build a wall across the north of England to try to stop the annual invasion of Scots trying to find jobs in London.

Don’t forget Cinco de Mayo! White people can’t get enough of this holiday!!! It’s just so much fun and they love to be “cultural” and go to Mexican restaurants and bars! No matter that Mexicans don’t give a crap about this holiday… White people think it’s just great to celebrate Mexican customs! Look how tolerant and accepting and DIVERSE they really are!

Please please please post about college basketball before the NCAA tournament! White people really like college basketball as opposed to professional basketball. First of all, it makes them sound like they went to a big university with a Division 1 athletic program, even if they only did a semester at a community college. They also like to sound knowledgeable about basketball by saying things like “it’s still truly a team game” and talking about bounce passes and zone defenses. By feigning this knowledge, white people believe they establish or up their street cred. Street cred is important to white people when they need to parallel park in a neighborhood with no driveways.
I am so whitethat I am clear and my shadow is a prism.

Genetically, the Irish were a mix between the Celtic (western France and Iberia) and the Viking peoples. The Roman name for Ireland was Hibernia because the soldiers thought the people looked like the people from Iberia (Spain, Portugal).

The Irish are divided into the Catholic Irish and the Anglo-Irish (read Protestant). The Catholics, like the Italians and the Polish, were seen as second-class white people. “Ethnic White”, as oxymoronic as that may seem.

“Irish Stew” was made with dog in pre-Christian times. Mutton tasted most like dog so became the new meat.

Guinness on tap is not refrigerated in Ireland so it does taste different.

Victorians actually believed potatoes were an aphrodisiac for the Irish poor.

I’m 1/2 Irish (been there too) and 1/2 Portuguese and I loathe boiled corned beef, cabbage and carrots. I do not wear green.

By the way, you should do an entry on Home Depot. I was in there with a friend and we noticed that EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THE STORE WAS WHITE. We actually started running around looking for people of race, but besides the lone Hispanic man we saw stocking screwdrivers, there were none. It was scary.

#261 Emilia — I think you are going to the wrong Home Depot. The one I go to has a very mixed race crowd. (I’m actually surprised you only saw one Hispanic man! I thought Hispanics in a Hope Depot was a common stereotype.)

You hit the nail on the head. My MIL is 1/2 Swiss, 1/2 Irish but advertises her Irishness so that she can revel in being oppressed (an interesting stance for an arch conservative). This really comes out when discussing world events and history: “It’s no different from what happened to the Irish.”

In her mind, here are some things that non-Irish people can just stop sniveling about:

– American Slavery
– The Holocaust
-The Colonization of the “New World” and Westward Expansion (we do love that “Dead Pawn” jewelry, though!)
– Genocides in Africa and the former Yugoslavia

I personally love Saint Patrick’s Day, just because I love most holidays where you do things you don’t do every day. (For the record, I don’t drink, I am white but not a drop Irish, I love corned beef, and I am wearing green right now BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE IT.)

“A big part of St. Patrick’s Day is having white people feel particularly upset at the oppression of their ancestors that has in no way trickled down to them. If you find yourself talking with a white person who tells you about how their great grandfather was oppressed by both the English and the Americans, it is strongly recommended that you lend a sympathetic ear and shake your head in disbelief. It is never considered acceptable to say: “but you’re white now, so what’s the problem?”

Aren’t you asian? Your people were being oppressed in this country at the same time as the Irish and stopped being oppressed in this country around the same time too. So, what’s the problem?

It’s unreal. Our local White People radio station (CD101) has been in an “Irish” pub all day, playing the Pogues and whatnot every other song. It’s a great station, but it’s like black framed glasses and ironic t-shirts are mandatory before tuning in. They love this holiday! I though of this site when I was listening, and thought, hmmm, St. Pat’s day should be a topic.

And it’s so true about why this day and no other day (German-American Day is in October, betcha didnn’t know that) is celebrated. The Irish have never been colonists, at war with the US etc.

And knowing what Irish people think of Americans is also very White People. So don’t bother telling us. I’ve been there. Unimpressed. They like to drink and talk, and avoid work.

Guiness from the cans is just fine. Don’t share with us how much better it is there. It’s is, but it’s not like you’re gonna blow your wad all over.

I’d like to raise a slight issue with the article. Pertaining to this section:

“When you are sitting at an Irish bar and someone orders a round of Guinness, you must take a single sip and while the other white people are savoring their drink, you say: “mmmm, I know it sounds cliche…”

If they had actually been to Ireland, and shared pints with locals, they would know that taking a sip of Guinness is unacceptable as it’s meant to be consumed in mouthfuls. (Or in the case of the Irish Car Bomb, half-pints at a time)

Happy St Pats, and I hope this information allows a few of you white people the opportunity to be a little more smug on this wonderful holiday.

Just to correct you: St. Patrick brought Christianity not Catholicism to Ireland. Ireland had its own kind of Christianity until the mid-Middle Ages. Read the book “How the Irish Saved Civilization” – it explains in there.

I read this post this morning, and being from the South (before I got my degree at a small liberal arts college), where St. Patty’s Day isn’t a big deal, I wasn’t sure I could relate. As I was waiting in line at Trader Joe’s after I got out of my publishing job in Manhattan (I’m applying to grad school in literature), buying some natural organic almond butter and Greek yogurt, I overheard the post-grad age guy behind me, the employee holding the “end of line” sign, telling a younger employee, “So that’s what St. Patrick’s Day is really all about -” (at this point I’m praying I’m going to hear the word “oppression” in the next few seconds) “Celebrating overcoming the oppression of the English.” I laughed out loud. He was definitely revelling in indignation over oppression that “in no way trickled down to him.” I turned around and told him to read your blog.

Ditto the poster who pointed out that St.Patrick did not bring “Catholicism” to Ireland. He was pre-schism, so he brought Christianity in its undivided state. Ireland ended up on the Catholic side of the East-West split, but the Eastern (Orthodox) church celebrates St. Patrick’s life too.

Hey, wait a minute. I bought tights with shamrocks on them and wore them to work today. As I realized I needed to get gas on the way to work today I was feeling a little unsure about this until I got to the gas station and the girl at the pump in front of me was wearing a headband with dangling shamrocks on it. That made me feel a lot better.

i live and work in mendocino california.
the very people you speak of are in my face, every day.
there are the visiting white people as well as a certain number
of resident white people that embody most everything you write about here, just wanted you to know that it applies beautifully, in certain regions anyway.

thanks for making it amusing, rather than strictly frustrating and annoying.

❤ your article! so true and so funny.
I’m part Irish as well but I’d like to point out that while the Irish did not have the massive manpower of the British and Spanish, they were cogs in New World colonization machine. By association, they are every bit as guilty of being oppressors as Spain or England in South America.

Tommy- Actually, I’m not way off. I’ve been to Ireland 4 times (last time @ 2 years ago) and made the same lame trek to the Guinness factory because that’s what we do.

Anyway – the bar at the factory- they do NOT refrigerate Guinness served to most of the locals. Sit and watch some of them order.. a matter of taste I guess. You would know that if you went to that particular bar.

And it seems that Tooneen knows a thing or two :

A few corrections:
259 tooneen

A few corrections:

Guinness on tap is not refrigerated in Ireland so it does taste different…

Talk about the strange phenomena known as “the Angry White Man”. They’re a minority but their population has grown in recent years because they have found a new thing to hate. I mean why are they mad? lol

yes…..this blog is very true. i was once able to land a big job interview on st patty’s day, by just mingling a drinking with hundreds of white people in the middle of the street. its amazing how some of this stuff is meant to be funny but is actually very true.

It’s not just sentimental nonsense. Guinness is different (some say “better”) in Ireland because the stuff they send overseas is made to travel better and to be drunk at a later date than stuff that is made, shipped and drank all in the same week, and shipped within an Island that is 150 miles across. Guinness is definitely thicker in Ireland, taste is up to you.

From the excellent movie The Commitments: “Do you not get it, lads? The Irish are the blacks of Europe. And Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland. And the Northside Dubliners are the blacks of Dublin. So say it once, say it loud: I’m black and I’m proud.”

“From the excellent movie The Commitments: “Do you not get it, lads? The Irish are the blacks of Europe. And Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland. And the Northside Dubliners are the blacks of Dublin. So say it once, say it loud: I’m black and I’m proud.”

P.S. British people suck!”

That’s funny. The movie was made by an Englishman and shows an English stereotype of the Irish—soulful and talented but lazy, undisiplined, given to factionalism and lacking resolution and will to succeed.

White people aren’t just into this stuff to try and trick the others. I think they/we actually enjoy it. Jumping around with a pint of guiness can be fun regardless of whether or not you’ve seen civil war. The best satire points a finger at the dirty side of humankind, but the very best lets a glimmer of hope shine through. I think you’ve failed in that regard.

what about single malt scotch
what about turntables
what about vintage sneakers
what about Country chic
what about Lou Reed
what about pinatas
what about Bonnie Franklin
Oh! What about Saturday Night Live

THIS IS A HATE CRIME AND I WOULD LIKE TO START A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT AGAINST YOU! This is so racist, how about I write a blog about stuff “idiots like” that would be YOU and your commentators.

If I posted a blog about “Stuff BLACK people or RED people or GREEN people” liked, you’d probably be the first in line at the courthouse, gee, I think I will start a class action case about you, your IP will show where you are you racist pig!

On Saint Patrick’s Day we reflect on “the Luck of the Irish”: 700 years of bloodshed, occupation and civil war, ethnic cleansing, religious hatred and exile.

To add insult to injury, a whole “industry” has grown up around the suffering of the Irish people, exploited today by the likes of Gerry Adams of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, who rests on the laurels of “armed struggle” while advocating the eventual extinction of the Irish people through abortion, homosexual behavior and large scale Third World immigration.

Depending on your point of view, the IRA were either glorious freedom fighters or Marxist thugs. But what is beyond dispute is the frankly lunatic position of Sinn Fein now that the IRA has abandoned the Armalite for the ballot box: Sinn Fein’s “nationalists” are the number one supporters of Third World immigration into the Emerald Isle.

That’s right: the men who now wear the “nationalist mantle” won at the cost of blood, sweat and tears on both sides of the Irish divide are working hand over fist to displace the very people all this pain was meant to aid: the native, white inhabitants of Ireland.

I am completely infatuated with this website, but I don’t agree with the statement made early on in this certain ‘blog’ i don’t know what you’d call it; I’m drunk.

Anyway, I have yet to meet a person that has constantly, extensivley, or ever brought up the fact that the Irish were opressed for a reason to celebrate this holiday.
I think its a fun holiday, and a lot of people–including people NOT from the Irish ‘descent’ enjoy it. I think that the majority of US don’t dwell on the fact that we wrre discriminated by the whole east coast when my ancestors arrived because we feel the sense that the past other that to learn from it, will do us no good.

My scots-irish husband’s birthday is on St Patrick’s day. And he is pasty white, god bless him! And with the last name of McPherson is just icing on the cake. Actually there are a number of black immigrants from Africa who moved to Ireland for political asylum and now are citizens. There’s even a black mayor in one of their cities.

St. Patrick’s Day is an opportunity to express Gratitude and Thanks. For this reason, many Irish Catholics all over the world start the celebration with attendance at Mass, not stop at the nearest pub. Those who are not part of our faith and culture do not fully know why we celebrate one of our saint’s feast days.

As a people we love those who have donated their lives selflessly for our benefit. St. Patrick, St. Bridget, St. Brendan, and many others are a case study for us to pattern our lives. Above all, we hope to follow the example of our patron saint in both Ireland and America, our Blessed Mother Mary. Our memories are long and hopefully our gratitude is eternal.

I am both an American and Irish citizen and spend every day thanking God that I have the grace to be both. My family fled the poverty of the early 20th Century in Achill Island, County Mayo, Ireland and traveled to the United States, leaving forever the hope of being with precious family for the hope of providing a better life for those of us who follow.

My grandparents were truly courageous to leave all they love and know to go to a strange, new, and exciting country of infinite possibility. Their selflessness resulted in generations enjoying those freedoms that were denied their ancestors and themselves.

Our family was no different than those who fled tyranny, persecution, poverty, and hopelessness from other countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa. Our story is no different than those who desperately try today to do the same from the Americas to the United States.

Modern technology has been most generous to us. The water that was an huge separation between the Americas and Europe has become a mere pond. My family knows well and loves its cousins.

We have the luxury of maintaining treasured bonds with our extended family in Ireland, England, Canada, as well as the United States. So many of us have the same names that we have to resort to middle names and nicknames to distinguish each other.

In reviewing the commentary of this blog, I was saddened to see the misunderstanding of the Holy Day and the resentment and anger by some. We openly welcome all to celebrate a great saint’s life. The antithesis of his life is the paganistic evolution of the day.

For the record, yesterday night was spent with my father, our patriarch, and my immediate family. Yes, a feast of stew, potatoes, and soda bread were prevalent. No beer, wine or spirits. The meal always starts out with Grace in gratitude for all that God has given us in His bounty.

Where St. Patrick’s Day begins, can St. Joseph’s Day, St. Ignatius of Loyola’s Feast Day, St. Stanislaus Day, St. Margarat of Hungary, St. Bonaface Day, the Feast of the Assumption of Mary, and the Feast of the Immaculate Conception be far behind?

Even though some of these posts are spot-on for any group of white people, I feel a need to say that this blog is really about stuff that white americans like. It’s probably been said already. Nevertheless, it is extremely funny.

I am Irish (Dubliner). I would just like to defend if not Irish people, at least myself. I have never thought that English people should feel guilty about Northern Irish history. Just like I have never thought that I should feel guilty about the crimes that terrorist groups like the IRA.

May I also suggest that you are generalising (wildly) about Irish peoples attitudes. You don’t seem to realise there are massive differences in opinion throughout the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. I would also like to point out that these are separate countries, no matter what some would like to hope for or believe.

It is offensive and simply wrong for you to assume that all Irish people hate and begrudge all English people. In fact by doing that, it seems to only point out your dislike of all Irish people.

I do not associate or sympathise with the IRA. I would never assume that you, just because you are English, sympathise with Unionist terrorist organisations such as as the UVF. These groups do not stand for anything noble. They are little more than organised crime.

I am proud of being Irish. That has nothing to do with religion or violent history.

Anecdote one: I was at a party in Paris, and this Prince Edward type wearing a smoking jacket and cravat turns to me and asks, “Are you Irish” [bourgeous accent].

Anecdote two: London, in toilet stall of a pub: i was urinating, and some limey yells, “oy, only one toilet in the house and some irishman is pissin’ in it”.

I couldn’t figure out what the joke is. I figure maybe because Irish have 4 inch penises or something. But maybe they are eluding to the Irish as being foreign, a colony of people to be oppressed. But then, no white imperialist nation has ever succeeded in colonizing China. Or maybe I’m such a lush, they thought i have Irish blood in me.

Some white people like pretending their particular aberrations are standard, most specifically because those particular white people need to feel superior.

Look at the antics of some of the more vocal supporters of candidates in the democratic primary campaigns. Hillary Clinton’s, white, feminist nazi-like borgs, and then look at Barack Obama’s, white fascisti-like borgs. It makes me feel that were we able to DNA test these particular white people, and compare the findings to the DNA of the Hitlers, Goerings, the Marxes, Stalins, the Klan types, etc.. we could possibly find some particular connection, perhaps learn that there is a strain of “white people” that need, say, early psychiatric intervention?

i had the same theory about why so many white people identify so strongly with their 1/32948754th irish ancestry. and to respond to the first post, it’s true that the irish did not start out as white, but they’re certainly considered white now. race is a fluid social construct.

Some white people like to create little sub cultures to help enhance their feelings of superiority. A recent example of this is the “foodie”. In blogs, at farmer’s markets, and just about any where else affluent white people, who have never experienced real hunger or malnourishment can expend massive amounts of carbon dioxide (and wasted carbon of other kinds) on the subject, they proclaim their superiority (moral and otherwise) in that they have refined palates, and simply know better than the lesser orders.

Foodies, young and old feel obliged to sojourn, whether for a time or permanently in France, so they can blog or speak about the supremecy of the quality of the food there. They prefer meyer lemons, and particular strains of wild strawberries grown on the mountainsides of the Swiss Alps to more common varieties. They seek a gazillion specialized varieties of produce, the rarer the better.

Those unable to travel to La Belle France like to moan when there isn’t a Trader Joes or whatever the latest craze in foodie shopper bliss in their close proximity. One such foodie blogger had a recent whinge-fest when all the stateside foodie bloggers were all a-twitter about pancakes, Fat Tuesday being iminent, and she was berefit because she was currently residing in, gasp, a city with “no Trader Joes!” and she could only make fairly decent pancakes if she used Trader Joe’s pancake mix. How crushing would it be for her if she learned that TJ’s store brands are common variety domestic brands repackaged under the TJ name. She could have been buying Aunt Jemima’s or Bisquick all along and never knew it.

They squawk about “really good quality olive oil” and the scarcity of authentic artisanal breads and cheeses. They spend vast sums on machines so they can then spend vast sums purchasing green coffee beans and roast them in the convenience of their own kitchens, looking down on those who don’t.

They condescendingly criticize the poor in their own back yards who get sick, labeling them as ignorant because they don’t eat more healthily, willingly indifferent to the fact that the outsourcing of jobs, and the importation of foreign labor to displace their fellow citizens in the workplace, they profit from, has caused long term un/under employment, and that you can’t adequately feed yourselves and your childen on the little money they are able to earn.

The fact that these particular affluent white people consider themselves “progressive” and enlightened, is a farce, because they are no different from the affluent white people of more than a century ago who rationalized slavery.

Anonymous #379, I’m not a scientologist, but it’s true that some white people created scientology and other bizarro religious cults. Again though, they do so because of their pesky need to prop up that pesky need to feel superior.

Then of course those cults are filled with the same sort of white people, Tom Cruise is a prime example. Again, test the DNA and do something to treat that crazy strain of white people.

You know here in the North of Ireland all the bars actually serve 2 different types of guiness too; room temperature (normal) and extra cold. Extra cold is, as a friend of mine is fond of saying, “for the Huns”

The ancient Celts lived in what is now known as Germany, before migrating to what is now known as Ireland. There is speculation that their precursors originated in the Middle East, but that hasn’t been substantiated, nor does that automatically translate to their not historically being white. Many natives from the Middle East have historically had what is considered white skin.. though if you use a color chart, you’d be hard pressed to find any human being whose particular skin tone matches what is considered white.

The Irish are not even largely Celt any more. They include Scandinavian and even Spanish ancestry from the raids on the island nation over the centuries.

Anonymous #389, beer or stout is the least of Ireland’s problems. How can you even talk beer when you people keep electing corrupt stooges like that fat bast*rd Bertie Ahern into office? Cripes, you people ought to be ashamed of yourselves for electing such a bendover man.

It should be redefined as a reminder of Mexico, as well as the rest of Latin America’s participation as the descendents of the Spanish people who were the creators of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, inspired by their Arabic trading partners. Also that those same ancestors committed genocide against the Mayan, Incan and Aztec peoples, and attempted to commit genocide against the native peoples of the American southwest.

There should also be discussion about Spain having to make restitution for the riches the Spanish crown and people accrued through enslavement, genocide and theft. Only then would it be worthwhile as a holiday to celebrate.

all the white folks i know just love to start filling their sudoku sheets in front of you, then stop to tell you about how many they have completed. in fact, some white ppl even travel with sudoku books.

when you tell them you’ve never played, they get a spring in their step (naturally because they are superior and the fact you don’t play is proof), then explain how much fun it is and how to play. my guess is half of them haven’t completed one in the presence of someone else.

Speaking of some white people and St. Patrick’s day, here’s one Carl Stanley McGee (Irish surname). A former Rhodes Scholar, Harvard graduate, summers on Nantucket, sudoko playing, Mass Equality activist and high profile aide to MA governor Deval Patrick. Here’s the NY Times article covering his wedding a number of years back: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/20/fashion/weddings/20vows.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

And here’s a link to his mug shot photo after being charged with brutal sexual battery on a 13 year old boy at a resort in Florida back in December:

Speaking of some white people and St. Patrick’s day, here’s one Carl Stanley McGee (Irish surname). A former Rhodes Scholar, Harvard graduate, summers on Nantucket, sudoko playing, Mass Equality activist and high profile aide to MA governor Deval Patrick. Here’s the NY Times article covering his wedding a number of years back:

I dunno Jenny….enjoying food and seeking the best ingredient varieties is simply a hobby and I don’t think there is anything wrong with it..We all have to eat to survive..why not eat good and seek the best? The term foodie was recently given to food enthusiasts. I grew up eating soup and sandwiches and government cheese so believe me I can relate and know know what it’s like to settle for less than stellar meals. I just happen to enjoy cooking, grilling and getting creative in the kitchen with different ingredients… Big deal. I don’t hate on people that east fast food on a regular basis, so don’t hate on folks like me. That’s all.

Jenny; as a most sincere compliment, you are something else. I thoroughly appreciate your sassy and fiery nature. I do bear disagreements with some of your impositions; having studies, relatively deep, Celtic anthropology and international politics. Regardless, I hope that this reply acts as a tenacious encouragement to your, or what I believe is your, spirited nature! To digress. . . . Fucking A!!!

Last night at my bar of employment, I overheard two conversations involving Guiness tasting better in Ireland and how a girl’s great grandfather was oppressed. This all while karoke was hosted by the gay waiter. It was white heaven.

I rather like #27’s comments. We are, after all, less than a century away from Ireland’s brutal colonization, and even less distant from racism against the Irish that emphatically refused to consider them ‘white.’ American slavery is more distant than that (not to diminish the ongoing effects of either history)…

#389, you’re right too, but then again, I find it hard to locate any race or nation or culture that hasn’t mixed equal parts vicious repression with kindness and culture.

But perhaps it’s time for a “‘What White People Like’ likes” blog. Top of the list would seem to be refusing to recognize brutal oppression if it happened to a white person… The second posting could be naive discussions of race and ethnicity with a hip twist, rapidly followed by “how liking anything good is pretentious and should be turned into a hip ethnic joke.”

It seems to me that this blog and a good proportion of its comments simply encourage a naive bigotry against anything that’s perceived as different. It is funny, but aren’t most ethnic jokes? “White” isn’t a real ethnicity, nor is “coloured.” They’re terms that mask a host of differences and commonalities. “Irish” in this posting is a good example — what nation, ethnicity, group, immigrant population, religious collective, etc. does this term designate? It’s a term implying an essential commonality among a heterogenous group, in this instance one that has been characterized over the past 2 centuries by tremendous internal divisions that a blog like this pretends don’t exist.

And yes, Guinness is better overseas. It isn’t pasteurized, so it doesn’t have that bitter edge. Perhaps the truth is pretentious.

Oh, and I’m not Irish, but genetic testing shows no identifiable traits that distinguish between the Irish and the English, so that Celtic line should be recognized for what it is — a broad part of European history that was used in the late 19th century to construct a sense of difference to help promote the Irish struggle for independence.

A little Irish history for you. Since my great great great great grandfather and his brother got off the boat and were immediatley drafted into the Union Army to fight for the freedom of slaves that they never knew or owned how about a little thanks. I think you could make a new category of things white people like.

“There isn’t a group of people on earth who are as self-aggrandising as the Irish. Here in England, of course, we’re supposed to feel enormously guilty over the way they’ve been treated – even if, like me, you in fact come from very poor English stock. It’s this guilt – coupled with their endless whining – that led to the Northern Irish ‘peace process’ (which, as every sane person knows, is just another name for ‘letting vicious murdering thugs walk free’). Which had to happen, of course – how could we not understand their pain of living under the British flag? So great, in fact, was the pain of living under the flag of one of the world’s finest democracies that they felt the need to routinely murder innocent people (including women and kids). Lovely, lovely people.

Funnily enough, the Irish always forget to mention their cowardice and collusion during World War II.

Oh, and anyone who proclaims to be Irish who isn’t actual Irish born and bred (i.e. most Irish-Americans), is an utter, utter c**t.”

Good grief, you utter pilgrim.

It’s stuff like this that has led you to being a lonely, racist half wit. Please hurry your, no doubt long promised, move to Australia.

#390 “I’m Irish” and “The Irish may not have had the manpower of the British or Spanish but they were part of the cog of European colonialization of South America. That puts them in league with the opressors.”

Here we go again…….

Why do you choose to live in a Western nation then? Seriously, why don’t some White-hating liberals just put their money where their mouths are and move to a nice sunny blissful non-oppressor inhabited place like Cuba? why not? Go move to a place like Peru where the Iindians there haven’t been “corrupted” by the Europeans. There are tons of nice villages.

Douche bags like Mr. 390 are obsessed with winning status struggles over other whites, and feel the need to choose “liberalism” to do so? It doesn’t work and it’s not “smart”. You are not any better than the real Whites you so disdain.

“Normally if someone were to wake up at 7:00 in the morning, take the day off work, and get drunk at a bar before 10:00 a.m., they would be called an alcoholic, and not in the artistic, edgy way that white people are so fond of.”

Not to mention that if this was a black people holiday, they be considered ghetto, uncouthe, loud, rambunctious and uncivilized.

#36, word!cinco de mayo is a historical reference to the french
colonial rule over what is 2day known as mexico..an indigenous homeland of ancient tribal cultures…just as ireland
once was b4 colonial imperialism of kings and queens, and certainly st. patrick, who came to”drive out the snakes”..

many people seem to be caught up on race(especially whites,
thus the need for this site)…there is but one human race,no?
we all originate from the land which is africa,no?

perhaps we should try to heal the reasons why we need to
consume numerous substances in so called homage of these
meaningful days and events..for many will celebrate st.pats and go next into easter..and right in between is the vernal equinox, a sacred celebration of all our ancestors indeed..
perhaps it’s just that, our sorrow over the loss of connection
to our earth mother and natural cadence of time

Anyone remember the NBA all-star game in Las Vegas? A major chimp-out, hundreds arrested, rapes, shootings, and other typical black assorted mayhem.

You guys really how to celebrate.

Frat boys have college degrees, and they don’t get arrested for rape. Rowdy ass Frat Boys rule!!!! ha ha…..

Blacks never get any degree whatsoever, have low reading levels, other basic educatioal impediements, and usually end up incarcerated.

St. Pat’s Day is nothing compared to “Freaknik”.

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Freaknik was a meeting of (primarily African-American) college students from all over the United States, occurring yearly in the city of Atlanta, Georgia. It was usually held during the third weekend in April, which at that time was Reading Day (or the break between classes and exams) for the schools of the Atlanta University Center. It began in 1982 as a small quiet gathering in Piedmont Park. It was initially sponsored by The California Club of Morehouse and Spelman Colleges.

For whatever reason, the event suddenly increased in popularity in 1991 and became a gathering primarily focused on dancing, drinking, and partying. The main problem with the event was that black youth were either driving slowly or stopping completely throughout the streets and highways of Atlanta.

In 1995, Greenbriar Mall was looted. After 1994, city leaders took measures to curtail Freaknik’s accessibility and hence its popularity. Because of those plans, Freaknik in its later years moved to Memorial Drive in Dekalb County to take part in heavy late night club activity during that time.

At its peak in the mid-nineties, it drew upwards of 250,000 revelers to Atlanta. The primary complaint of Freaknik was that it brought extra criminal activity upon the city of Atlanta. It was last held in 1999. The Reverie of Freaknik passed on to Daytona Beach, Florida until the city officials also grew tired of the antics of the attendees and they took steps to kill Freaknik once and for all. A major catalyst for the death of Freaknik was the brutal rape of a college female in the city center.

AppleJuce, do some research. Most of the Irish immigrants (specifically Irish Catholics) who came to America in the 1800s (when they began emmigrating in mass) were dirt poor and took the jobs that were considered “too dangerous” for slaves as slaves were considered by their owners to be too expensive to risk. The Irish were building railroads, canals, streets, and sewer systems, not black slaves. Slaves were working on Southern plantations while the Irish were building the Northern cities. I’m by no means saying slaves had it easy, but when telling people to open a book, you might want to open a few yourself.

Columbus Day a Hispanic celebration? Certainly not where I’m from (just outside Chicago). Sure, Columbus sailed in the name of Spain, but he was Italian and many Italians have claimed Columbus Day as a day for all Italians. I’ve never met a single Hispanic (and I’ve known plenty) who give a shit about Columbus Day. Actually, I haven’t really met many people who give a shit about Columbus Day…

Wow, how unoriginal. At first this site was amusing and quite poignant at times. But now, the author or creator appears to be content with examining their calendar or reading the cover of Entertainment Weekly and attaching the label “white people love this” to whatever it contains. What’s next? White people love Mothers day? White people love the NCAA tourney? White people love the Olympics. Get over yourself, and your no longer creative website.

OK….a fellow white person (my girlfriend) and I were debating last night (at a bar) whether this would should up on SWWL. I said NO because just like Steelers t-shirts made of stiff cotton, St. Patrick’s day attracts buttloads of white people, but entirely the wrong kind of white people to get any mention in this blog.

Even though the bar was full of white people (mostly polish) getting drunk and pretending to be Irish, the most white people at the bar were wearing no green, sitting at the bar wearing tweed, smoking unfiltered cigarettes and talking about their creative writing programs.

After this experience, the blog entry shouldn’t be St. Patrick’s Day, but PRETENDING TO BE JAMES JOYCE or THE IDEA OF BEING IRISH. Perfect.

I must admit, it makes me sad when non-Irish people steal my thunder and plaster their bodies with “Kiss Me I’m Irish” messages. I really am irish, but I don’t ask anyone to kiss me! That’s how you spread mono.

Jews love to traumatize innocent White kids by dragging them through their Holohoax museums. Don’t let your kid fall for that propaganda, keep them home from that field trip and teach them something positive and something that has to do with America.

Some Irish guy in Boston got fed up with all the Jew whining and their reparations/swindling schemes that he set up an “Irish Potato Famine museum”.

I’m not sure acting like a jew is good for his health, but here it is, a page out of the jewbag playbook:

Guinness does taste better in ireland. it is brewed all over the world. if you visit the guinness factory in dublin, you will also learn that guinness makes different brews for different regions. in africa, for example, you can buy a variety of guinness unavailable in the states. also this blog does not apply to all white people. only upper middle class yuppie types and middle class people who aspire to the former category. take the vintage clothing entry for example. white trash people do not wear it. and the whitest people do not wear it either. they wear seersucker and nantucket reds.

The Guiness brewed in Ireland tastes a lot different. The people at the factory claim that it’s because Guiness has been going through the pipes at the brewery for so long that it has its own “seasoned” taste. It’s much thicker than the crap in the states – it’s like mushroom gravy over there.

I have not found one bartender in the states who can pour Guinness properly. It takes several minutes to actually pour a proper pint. Also, the term “black and tan” pisses me off to no end. No one seems to realize that the proper term for a “black and tan” (half Guineess and half Harp) is “half and half”. The term “black and tan” is a derogotory term that refers to the British police officers that harrassed/harrass the citizens of Northern Ireland. This was especially true during The Troubles.

—It is never considered acceptable to say: “but you’re white now, so what’s the problem?”—

Jews are much the same way. Despite being among the most affluent people on the planet, we must treat them all as victims because of the Holocaust (and why “Antisemitism” is such a taboo). I think Jews and blacks love being the oppressed ones more than the white Americans who try to relate to some Irish ancestry.

Blah…if you go to a proper Irish bar in the US, they know that Guinness and Harp is a “Half and Half” and Guinness and Bass is a “Black and Tan”. If they don’t, turn around and walk out. Harp hasn’t been as good since they started selling the stuff brewed in Canada instead of Ireland (at least the shit they sell around me is from Canada).

Hm, really? From my experience I wouldn’t say that white people spend much time thinking about the oppression of their Irish ancestors; most of them don’t even know what the holiday is really for. We just like a good party. 😉

“From the excellent movie The Commitments: “Do you not get it, lads? The Irish are the blacks of Europe. And Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland. And the Northside Dubliners are the blacks of Dublin. So say it once, say it loud: I’m black and I’m proud.”

P.S. British people suck!”

“That’s funny. The movie was made by an Englishman and shows an English stereotype of the Irish—soulful and talented but lazy, undisiplined, given to factionalism and lacking resolution and will to succeed.

And you thought that was excellent?”

The Commitments was based on a novel by a Booker Prize winning Irish novelist by the name of Roddy Doyle.

I guess I didn’t need reminding, but I guess white people also (don’t) like Jews. The amount of anti-Semitism in the comments is disturbing. But maybe we’re not the white people who are acting like this on St. Patrick’s Day, so maybe we’re not white people.

Whatever. I got to this site by mistake, linking in from another blog. Ooops.

I love this blog for the right reasons (I hope) which just makes me all the more mockable for saying this: but I really wish you would purge the more severe hate speech from your comments.

I was subbed to the comments to see who was saying what and maybe meet some folks who like this blog for the same reasons I do, but after feeling pummeled by so much creepy scary racist blather, particularly by the comments with open hate speech and racial epithets, I have decided to stick strictly to reading your most excellent posts as long as they maintain their integrity (and make me laugh).

Of course it’s your blog and your call but I just thought I would let you know how I feel. In case you care.

St. Patrick’s day is pretty essential. Every white person gets to goof off and get drunk for a day, while wearing green for no apparent reason. Not much to actually do with the true holiday, at least not in America.

What the hell are you talking about? How could you even compare the two cultures/religions to one another. St. Paddy’s Day is by far an amazing day to celebrate our history.

Irish Americans are known for being the greatest war heros in American History. (Read Born Fighting if you need proof.) They were also the majority of the NYPD and NYFD that sacrificed their lives and continue to do so on a daily basis. So before you compare our culture to a greedy/cowardly heritage back it up with facts. Yesterday marked our 5th anniversary in this war and I thank god for all the brave US soldiers out their fighting. There is nothing unpatriotic about celebrating our Irish roots- esp. when our boys are risking their lives to protect your sorry ass on a daily basis.

I have noticed that the “wrong kind of white people” he keeps referencing are the majority of white people you meet in your average day in most of North America. Makes me wonder who the white people you’re talking about are. I suspect they are Californians, or some equally divergent subspecies.

come on everyone go drink a beer and relax
by the way, i bartended in the UK and all of the older men complained about guinness selling out and having an “extra cold” option for the younger generation.
so you know, there’s always something to bitch about

An affinity between the Irish and Spanish and Spanish subsets goes back to at least the days of Tyrone’s rebellion. The Spanish aided Tyrone with arms and troops and after the rebellion’s failure many Irish fled to Spain, enough so that Irish names are not uncommon in Spain.

The last Spanish viceroy of Mexico was named O’Donoju and the fortifications of San Juan were built by Colonel Thomas O’Daly at he prompting of Field Marshall Alexander O’Reilly.

There was a Mexican president named Obregon (O’Brien) and Irish soldiers known as the San Patricio Battalion fought in the Mexican Army in the Mexican-American War, there is a memorial to them in the City of Mexico.

I also know of quite a few Mexican-Irish marriages in Chicago and my cousin Tommy in Baltimore married a Mexican.

I wonder if this site was replicated a la [insert ethnicity here] it might be considered horribly racist… just guessing.

The sad part is finding out that my black friends are more white than I (a white person). For instance I went to this BBQ where everyone was pining over the jerk chicken and the only thing I had to say was ‘ damn, this Shi7 is HOT!’ (this particular jerk was pretty hot, then again i sweat profusely with hot stuff and tend to enjoy it, or say i do even if i don’t) and immediately went for a glass of water. Well, everyone starts laughing at me… cause i have a glass of water from the tap and they’re all drinking out of their freshly cooled water bottles.

Similarly, in my neighbourhood, there are A LOT of blackrish (irish africans or the likes). Apparently they don’t drink beer too much despite their irish roots, even on st paddy’s. and they don’t know why it’s green.

Just to clear a few things up…
it’s Paddy’s day, not Patty’s,
corned beef and cabbage is an American dish, not Irish (and soda bread is not a Paddy’s day tradition, it’s just everyday bread),
Green beer is an abomination, (never seen in Ireland)
Irish people are white, but also black, asian……..

“451 Patrick
Blah…if you go to a proper Irish bar in the US, they know that Guinness and Harp is a “Half and Half” and Guinness and Bass is a “Black and Tan”. If they don’t, turn around and walk out. Harp hasn’t been as good since they started selling the stuff brewed in Canada instead of Ireland (at least the shit they sell around me is from Canada).”

This is also an abomination. Please don’t go to such Irish bars in the US. (And please don’t ask for a ‘black and tan’ in Ireland)
😉

Man, you ain’t kidding. Being black, I could care less about St. paddy’s and cinco de mayo or any other “holiday” that isn’t remotely important to folks on a cultural standpoint except that it gives them an excuse to be dicks and vags while getting hammered.

Thos holidays obviously give folks a reason to live it up at the bar, which is another thing white people like.

If I could add to the list, white people are apparently fond of non-threatening black guys who suprise them by being well-spoken, articulate and nothing like the guys and girls they see on music videos and The Wire. I also know that it’s a fact that they love to share that fact despite it being intrinsically racist. I have plenty of stories about that one…

Arghhhhhh!!! I was just saying the other day why is it the US makes such a big day about St. Pats? Your AMERICAN, not Irish. Try going to Ireland and claiming your irish (cos your great grandmother was from Cork or something) and watch them roll their eyes and cringe for you. Saying that though that goes for all Americans, when you get out of your country your American first, ethnicity second, its only in the US you make such a big deal about your heritage.

Oh man you missed the mark on this one. Your average NYT times reading, NPR listening, no TV having White Person looks on St Patrick’s Day with condescension at best. Either they ignore it or, if they actually are Irish-American, they make remarks about how St. Patrick’s Day is “amateur day” and that real Irish “drink on the other 364 days.” Or make knowing remarks about how in Ireland, of course, St. Patty’s day is no big deal and everyone knows only Americans celebrate it, not “real” Irish people.

Didn’t like this one, St. Patrick’s day is something that the WRONG kind of white people like (White people that read USA Today and like chain bars). In my experience as a white person, we tend to loathe this day and make sure to stay away from the more Irish areas of the city, perhaps commerating the day with a simple vintage kelly green t-shirt or by purchasing a Guinness and Jameson at our local dive bar, nothing more.

My ex hailed from Belfast. St. Patrick’s day in America was always a good day to just stay home and close the drapes as far as he was concerned. When he lived on the East Coast he also got heartily sick about all the “controversies” surrounding the parade in New York, i.e. the role of gays and lesbians marching in the parade or not.

“It’s great watching all these ‘oppressed’ Irish-Americans wallowing in victimology….on Native American soil.

And yes, i’m English, and I enjoy oppressing people – so shove your guilt up your arse!”

Good for you, you’re a member of a courageous though violent and piratical race and proud of it, that’s refreshing, were I a Limey I’d be proud of it too.

My grandfather rather than be a victim joined the game and was a Regular, 1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers. Was an Old Contempible at LaCateau, Ypres, Somme etc. and killed many a German for the King.

By the way, every Indian I’ve met calls himself an Indian, not a Native American.

Your posts are so hilariously misinformed and hate-filled that I don’t know what to say. If you equate “Irish people” to those members of the Republican movement that killed innocent people, why not equate “British people” with the UVF, LVF, etc.? You know, those who gave birth to horrific killers like the Shankhill Butchers that are glorified by many “British people”?

As for calling Ireland cowards based on WWII…..I don’t know where to begin there. Have a read of this speech; de Valera says it better than I ever could.

I find saying that white people like to hang with well-spoken articulate, non-threatening black men and not the people they see in videos to be an odd complaint. I am a white man who prefers to hang out with non-threatening people regardless of their race. It seems bizarre to me that anyone would want to hang out with someone they thought was threatening. I’d no sooner hang out with some ignorant ghetto black guy than I would some ignorant trailer trash white guy.

Anyway, to the topic on hand. I’m an American of Irish descent and I’m proud of my heritage and have done my best to know a thing or two about it. I like St. Patrick’s Day, but it’s for my own reasons. Being over 21, I can really drink anytime I want. It does sadden me that so many so-called Irish Americans would so readily embrace a negative stereotype (as well as non-Irish Americans; I’ve seen blacks, Asians, Indians, and Hispanics donning the green and getting plowed in the name of Saint Patrick, too), but it has more to do with finding an excuse to drink than it actually has to do with a real appreciation or understanding for the Irish themselves. The frat boy mentality has overrun the public celebration of the day, but I still celebrate in private with my family. I wouldn’t disavow the day because of the morons. After all, all of us, of all races and ethnicities, know people who embody the worst stereotypes of our backgrounds. I prefer to educate instead of distancing myself.

Saint Patrick’s at my house was a family get together after mass where we sang traditional songs and had a huge meal which didn’t include corn beef and cabbage. If people want to make fools out themselves I could care less.

Some years ago, I’d learned that the earliest people who lived in ancient Ireland hundreds years before the Romans came were originally from the ancestral tribe who lived in Spain for generations. I nearly forgot about it until one of the above posts mentioned an Irish-Spanish connection.

Romans never arrived in Ireland. There is much debate about the origins of the Celts of the British Isles and whether they are derived from Celt-Iberians or France. A good discussion about it can be found on Stormfront,org

About four years ago on my last job, it was about to be St. Patrick’s Day and one of my White male co-workers had the nerve to ask me:

White Male Coworker: “Your last name is Irish. Do you celebrate St. Patrick’s Day? Are you going to go out after work to a pub? What kind of green are you going to wear?”

At first I was shocked. Then I got pissed.

Then…I looked at my coworker and realized that he was totally confused by my death glare at him. He wasn’t asking me because he was a racist azz. He was asking me because he was genuinely clueless about certain aspects of American History.

I briefly explained to him that my last name is Irish because most Black people who are descendants of enslaved Africans simply took on the name of the plantation, or White family, who held them in bondage after Slavery in America became illegal due to the Emancipation Proclamation.

White Male Coworker: “The Irish had slaves? No we didn’t. That can’t be right. We didn’t have slaves”

Me: “Yes, there were many plantations and small farms in America, especially in the South, that were owned by Scotts-Irish, Irish, Germans, English, French, and even Spanish”

I told him that I come from a legacy of Slavery on both sides of my family. One side were Irish, the other were English.

White Male Coworker: “So you protest St. Patricks’s Day?”

Me: ” No, I don’t. I’ll probably go take advantage of the beer specials at the bars like everyone else.”

I then walked off. He felt like crap the rest of the workday but I didn’t care at the time. Sometimes I resent having to treat White people like babies when it comes to race issues. I’m not here to make anyone comfortable with the color of my skin, period. And they need to read ALL of American History instead of hoping that certain aspects will go away.

Hell, I was nice to him. I didn’t even go into why my skin is on the light side of Black Beauty. If I had started talking about American Slavery and rape, I probably would have made him cry. Because that’s IS the reason why I’m so light. Historically, it’s all, for the most part, because of rape during Slavery.

I’m not that bitter about my family history….I mean, I still wore a little green on St. Patricks Day.

People in America claiming to be Irish is annoying as hell. You’re not Irish; you’re American. Go to Ireland and they will tell you so. Also, many people will talk about how proud they are of their Irish heritage, but have absolutely no idea about the history of Ireland, the language, The Troubles, or the religion. Does anyone actually realize that leprechauns were/are a part of people’s beliefs? It’s embarrassing and I find it offensive that we can use leprechauns, sirens and banchees for our own amusement. You don’t see too many cereal boxes with Jesus on the front do you?

People in America claiming to be Irish is annoying as hell. You’re not Irish; you’re American. Go to Ireland and they will tell you so.

Oh shut up. What about all the Irish in the USA today, many of whom are illegal, that are joining up with Third World scum so the can selfishly become American? These same Irish left their own country!! They left it, in a day and age where they don’t have to.

The Irish left in Ireland are getting duped by a marxist Sinn Fein who’s new motto is Britain out, Nigerians in….so they can get votes. 😦

Ireland today is choosing a path of suicide by opening its borders up. I really don’t think they are in a position to judge anyone.

Hey! I hope everyone had a great St. Patrick’s Day! I know my girlfriend and I did. We drank lots of GREEN BEER and had a great time at McMenamin’s. Best of all – I didn’t drink a drop of Guinness at all since the local distributor is a client of mine; and we get FREE Guinness all year long.

The Irish did not build America. It was the Protestant Ulster Scots who moved in the Mid West and South and through hard work, sweat and blood, caused the agriculture to flourish. The Irish Catholics themselves moved primarily into the big cities Boston, Philly, New York, etc, etc and brought with them alcoholism and crime. Slums like the Five Points were second only to those in London’s East End during the 19th century. So called ‘Irish Americans’ have little or nothing to be proud of. Their part in the winning of the Civil War is also overstated, if anything it was the man power of the freed blacks that provided the north with the strength required to win the war.

Wow, I read about a hundred posts into this before my mouth burned with bile. If this has already been said, I don’t care. There are many different blends of Guinness that are exported to different parts of the world to appeal to different tastes. So yes, Guinness in Ireland tastes different than Guinness in the US. As to which tastes better, I have no idea as I have never left the shores of the US. You can see reviews for yourself on any number of beer websites

I’m half Irish by descent and this entry is exactly why I keep a low profile on St. Patrick’s Day/weekend.

I agree with Drew, #524. There are far more drunks on St. Patty’s day than usual, and all these extra drunks are tools because they’re the over the top ones who don’t go out drinking every other weekend.

Black Irish #514: of course you’re pissed. You’re black. The media tells you its okay to be pissed/angered at almost anything, and that combined with your natural proclivity toward it (being black) means you’re always on edge..its no surprise. Its all “whiteys fault”..eh?

And Bob, are you jealous that you didn’t go to a private college? What else would cause your little rant? Sounds like somebody is mad that the private college kids get offices while the night-school MBAs get cubicles.

I love the cheap epithets and slurs, and it never stops with furious1. Anyone who is not a raving lunatic multi-culturalist drone is “white power” LOL!!! Tell it to Rev. Wright or Ariel Sharon. Now there are some racial supremacists.

“The Irish did not build America. It was the Protestant Ulster Scots who moved in the Mid West and South and through hard work, sweat and blood, caused the agriculture to flourish. ”

The only people who worked hard in the old south were the Black slaves and the Catholic Irish dockhands in the ports The Scotch-Irish, also known as Hillbillys, are noted for their indolence and lack of enterprise and would rather hunt and make whiskey than go about the backbreaking work of serious and profitable farming. Note that White southern farmers were subsistance level slash and burn farmers who let their livestock run loose in the woods.

The lower Midwest was indeed settled by Hillbillys but the productive praries of the upper Midwest were settled by New Englanders and upstate New Yorkers of mostly English descent. These were the people who tackled the prarie and turned the upper Midwest into the world’s most productive breadbasket. There were also some Germans and later Scandanavians involved of course.

The Scotch-Irish do know how to hate though and this combined with their undoubted courage makes them excellent warriors though their arrogance and lack of disipline makes them less excellent as soldiers.

Portnoy, are you just trying to make me think you didn’t break up with your boyfriend Bob? Otherwise why would you suddenly have a change of heart about the Irish? Gee, are they white? Or not?

Yes, Irish GDP is good, in no small part because like the United States, the Republic of Ireland has always had an open door policy toward immigrants.

But I imagine that you must hate the EU, way too much like a “one world” government for you. After all, places like the United States, Ireland, Britain, and Germany are all destined to split along racial lines according to you. Just like Russia, right?

Please, go back to stormfront and belly-ache with the rest of the minorities.

I love the cheap epithets and slurs, and it never stops with furious1. Anyone who is not a raving lunatic multi-culturalist drone is “white power” LOL!!! Tell it to Rev. Wright or Ariel Sharon. Now there are some racial supremacists.

St. Patrick’s day requires Celtic music, which is making a big comeback amongst white people, and is becoming popular all year around. Doesn’t every ethnicity deserve music and art of its own? Do we have to buy CD’s that embarass us just because they’re trendy?

It is worth pointing out that white people love Jews. As an Irish Jew myself, I get all sorts of love from other guilt-ridden white people even as I’m white. My Northern Irish and German blood gets no notice, however. (Yes, I am full of ethnic conflicts that automatically vanished upon exposure to Ellis Island.)

Here in Boston we have “Evacuation Day”. This is the day we mark to commemorate the day that the British occupation of Boston ended and they got back on their boats and went back to Mother England. Coincidently(?) this happens to fall on March 17th so city workers don’t even need to call in, they get a paid day off to drink all frickin day and go watch The Dropkick Murphy’s play on a flatbed truck in southie.

“For some strange reason, white people also like cinco de mayo and they DONT even know what happened on that day. They think it is Mexican independence day. haha”

Good point black mexican. I think white people like cinco de mayo because they like eating chips and salsa outside while downing Caronias. As for finding out the history of the holiday, who cares, look at me I’m wearing a sombrero and speaking spanglish!

I beleive it has been mentioned, but it is important to realize that the Irish are not white. Just like light skinned blacks look down on darker skinned blacks, True white people look down on the Irish.

I live in a community that’s about 80% Irish. I have no Irish in me at all. I’m unmistakenly non-Irish and very Italian in my appearance. It’s all good though. Being white, I can’t help myself enjoying the holliday.
Columbus day used to be for Italians to act up in town on a Saturday night, but that day has recently fallen out of favor among white people. At least, among the white people depicted at this site.

response to 515 about being annoyed by Americans proclaiming theselves Irish. I think you are misunderstanding St Paddy’s day in America. Its not appreciation for the Irish, its making fun of the Irish. Getting all drunk and acting the fool, “hey look at me im a drunk leprachaun tool” No self respecting white person would ever want to be considered Irish. That would be like calling a person from Spain, hispanic…..

Just thought I’d let you all know that Guinness in North America does taste different from Guinness in the UK, but that’s not because it was brewed in a different place…it’s all brewed in the copper kettles in Dublin. The difference is that they concentrate the beer into a syrup to cut down on shipping costs and then reconstitute it once it gets here. I’ve never visited the Guinness factory (my parents have), but this is what my Sensory Evaluation/Food Science prof has told me. Also, I’m white and Canadian (Newfie) but I still celebrate St. Paddy’s every year by drinking copious amounts of Guinness and wearing green (albeit in a dark forest shade from Club Monaco). Perhaps it’s because Newfoundlanders have faced similar oppression from the British (and some would argue the Canadians)? Love the blog…it definitely holds true for the most part. You are very astute 🙂

John Q Whitey is right. Being Irish more than one day a year is simply way too ethnic, blue collar and catholic for the type of white people this blog is about. They desperately want to be European but in a generic sense.

I laughed so hard at this one I almost bust a gut. I am Irish and I confess: guilty as charged.

Just yesterday I was on a b-board whining about the Potato Famine and the way Irish Catholics were excluded from country clubs and New York law firms when they got to America.

In today’s political environment, playing the victim gives you leverage. Look at how playing the victim has opened doors for blacks through race quotas and affirmative action.

Irish are the only white people who get to play the victim and get away with it. Furthermore, we feel absolved of all white guilt for slavery because our ancestors were treated just as bad. Who was building the railroad for white America? Blacks, Chinese and Irishmen.

So Irish have the best of both worlds. We’re white but we still get to whine about the past and make other white people feel guilty.

Oh Trevor… he also wasn’t a Anglo Saxon protestant either. He also is clearly different than the Mega Church televangelists of today. Go ahead and call the Catholic church the Great Whore and us catholics cultists, you know you want to.

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“So great, in fact, was the pain of living under the flag of one of the world’s finest democracies that they felt the need to routinely murder innocent people (including women and kids). Lovely, lovely people.”

It must be hard for you, as an Englishman, to understand the killing of innocent people (including women and kids!). Unless you count your countrymen’s actions in parts of Africa, India, the Middle East, Ireland (for 800 years, you fucking prick), France, Germany (Dresden is simply lovely this time of year, what with no industrial capacity – let’s firebomb it what what), Russia, and China. I heard that even a few women and children were killed during your foreign adventures.

I’ve never met a Brit who wasn’t an outright bitchy prick. Not surprised by your post. So go fuck a goat you crooked-toothed cunt.

Trevor your ignorance is showing . St Patrick was not British (or English). He was born in the late 4th/early 5th Century in Roman-ruled Britain. The Germanic Anglo-Saxon migration to Britain did not even Begin until the fifth century AD, and they were not Christianized until much later. St. Patrick’s father was a Christian deacon. Therefore St. Patrick was not Anglo-Saxon, or English. He was also not “British”, as “Great Britain” would not exist for more than 1000 years. He may have been a Briton (a Celt), or a Welshman (a Celt), or even a Roman citizen of undetermined ethnicity (not Anglo-Saxon).

“British”, is not even an ethnicity, as it encompasses Welshmen, Scots, English (in its original use), and today even encompasses Nigerians and Pakistanis.

If Patrick was ordained a Bishop by a Papal representative, how is he not Catholic? I’m just curious.

All you anti-Semites are douche bags. Jews are the most upwardly mobile people in America. Jews moved out of the ghetto faster than any other group in America, and black people should take a lesson from them, and stop bitching about the government. That said, with out Jews, you would not have Google, Facebook, comedy, and a bunch of dead innocent Japanese people.

Everyone, I have to tell you about something I witnessed last Saturday while near Savannah, Ga. As most of you know, Savannah has a large St Patricks Day event. I was passing through the area while traveling from Florida back to South Carolina and my car broke down near Savannah and I had to have it towed to a car dealer to have it repaired when they opened on Monday in Savannah. I am driving down to Savannah today to go pick it up.

While I was awaiting the tow truck at the gas station where I stopped and the car died, I saw many people with the St Patricks attire and many obviously drunk or near drunk folks in various vehicles. What struck me as interesting was this, many of them were African- American. I have always heard of Black Irish so maybe that is what I was witnessing. Looks like another take over of a “holiday” by another ethnicity.

Now I am not racist. I am a “mutt”. Mixed heritage of Irish, British, French and Native American (Cherokee). Now see, what I saw has confused me. This is like Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans where there are many races and heritages celebrating, partying, having fun. I guess St Particks Day has also become the same melting pot as Mardi Gras. Interesting also that it falls in-between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday so I guess it’s another excuse for practicing Catholics to break Lent sacrifices for one day.

When I read that there was a website called “Stuff white people like”, it was after midnight and I wasn’t paying much attention. I interpreted as “Stuff white people, like”, with stuff being in the imperative mood as in “Get stuffed”, a less than gracious end to an argy bargy. The “like” at the end of the sentence is used as a modifier to soften the idea of assertion. An example would be “I don’t trust him, like”. Apart from the meaning of the verb “like” we have other uses for it in Ireland such as “I thought Michael Ignatieff was interesting, like, until he returned to Russia to write a book about his posh Russian ancestors whose estates had been seized by the Commies. He came across as full-of-himself, like, and when I read the comments on St. Patrick’s Day I was disappointed by , you know like, the lack of whimsy and the boring obsession with the “black stuff” Guinness, now the favourite drink of Nigerians and very old Irishmen. Anyone who really wanted to get stoned on any festival day would be drinking a powerful libation called “Fat Frog” (which is green) or “Slippery Nipple”, like.

As for the person bemoaning the fact that her mother told her she’d Irish ancestry, although she’d prefer Viking, she’d want to learn some history, God love her. Dublin was founded by the Vikings, extensive Viking raids took place in Ireland . Charmed by our ineluctible beauty etc. etc. and much milder climate, many stayed and mated. St. Patirick was long gone so we can’t say if these couplings were formal or informal, like. Their DNA is here though in the hair colour “rua”. Only 2% of the world’s population has naturally red hair but it is around l0% in Ireland and Scotland. I knew you’d want to know that, like.

seriously dude? i like in nyc, went out on st. pattys, met tons of your people (read: actually irish people, not americans like myself who are part irish and pretend) who in fact really truly lost their shit. their shit was no where to be found and it was hilarious.

and to this guy: “ANOTHER THING WHITE PEOPLE LIKE (THINGS) WORKING, BEING ACCOUNTABLE FOR YOUR OWN CHILDREN, KNOWING ALL YOUR KIDS NAMES, NOT STEALING ANYTHING THATS NOT TIED DOWN, STAYING OFF WELFARE………”

my response to him: dont talk. ever. seriously.
to all non-white people: dont worry, we arent all that stupid.

As an Irish person of indeterminate ethnicity in that I am neither white nor dark but somewhere in between (people think I am Greek or Italian usually) – I can say that I hate St. Paddy’s Day – not only because St. Patrick represents the attempt to destroy our earth-based heritage (luckily he was not entirely successful) but because I have buried way too many people I love who died from postcolonial disorders like alcoholism and drug addiction. I get angry with the “part-Irish” people who use this day to celebrate the destruction of my ancestors and my heritage – we are still here.

And Irish people and Black people did team up together when they were enslaved together in the Caribbean! The Draft Riots of NYC happened much later – Read the Many-Headed Hydra for the hidden history of the Atlantic!

I keep reading these posts and they just get more racist and horrible – its true, everyone DOES hate the Irish – for those who posted crap about Irish Americans not being Irish – F&&ck you. Just because you say so, does not make it true.

No the Irish weren’t slaves in America but they were enslaved by the Huns and sent to the West Indies(oh that lovely British democracy…spit!) and they didn’t gain whiteness for some time. In fact you had racist so called scientists saying that Anglo Saxons were superior to Celts based on the measurement of skulls on the 19th century.

For that asshole who thinks that the issue of “orange and green is over” obviously doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Check out NI newspapers my friend; it’s not over.

Also, douchebag who thinks that it was the Scots that built America: The word Scotland comes from the term “Scoti” which is Latin for “Irish”. Scotland literally translates to “land of the Irish”. It was merely members of the same tribes that migrated to different pieces of land.

Without the Irish coming to America (thanks to those monsters known as the English) America wouldn’t have been such a success.

For that asshole who thinks that the issue of “orange and green is over” obviously doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Check out NI newspapers my friend; it’s not over.

Martin McGuiness and Paisley, I know all about it. The point is, bigshot, that while these two groups are still bickering, the rest of Ireland becomes non-White. What’s the point of that?

You are saying that “British out, Nigerians in” is a good policy for the future generations of Irish kids? Are you nuts? Look at England and how multi-racial crap has totally fucked up that place and London in particular.

If you are Orange, then again, is having Nigerians and Chinese and Pakis in Belfast a good thing in the long haul? These people need to wake up fast and see what the real threat to Irish stability is.

What cracks me up, (as an Irish/Scots-Irish American) is when Hispanics call us all “Anglo”, LOL.

That’s like calling a Mexican a Spaniard. We were at war with the “Anglos” for a few hundred years as Celts, and are a completely separate and distinct ethnicity, yet we are all Anglos to every Hispanic, especially on the West Coast.

To the black guy in #514…you say “even the Spanish” as far as owning slaves in the US. Uhm. DUH..you post as if you are “enlightening” us all on some issues of blackness, and then you say something like that.

Dude, the Spanish RAN the freakin slave trade, and were the largest slave owners for a period of time, as were the Portuguese and Arabs. In fact, the word for a “black person” in Arabic, is “Abid” which MEANS slave.

On the other topic, it is true, the US was built by the Scots-Irish largely.

In this blog it is stated that 100% of white people are proud to claim that they are somewhat Irish. Funny cause every St. Patricks day every body is suddenly Irish. Every race on this day wears those stupid plastic hats, green , and drinks like there is no tomorrow.

Silly private school boy. No my undergrad was a CHEAP state school. My grad school (MBA) was at a nice private school.

But I can tell from your posts that you’ve never worked a day in your life that wasn’t a college job. Hence the jabs at you and your extremely high tuition. I didn’t go into debt for my education, have fun trying to get out of yours 😀

Anyone who is not a raving lunatic multi-culturalist drone is “white power” LOL!!!

Its true. Just look at the amount of Furious1’s posts here and his claims. So typical of a multiculturalist, he claims to know so much but in reality knows so little!

He is the product of a middle class family who is probably scrimping to pay his 30k/year tuition. He thinks the cost of his undergrad combined with parroting the MSM party line on multiculturalism will somehow open more doors for him.

People like him wind up very disturbed when reality doesn’t turn out the way they thought it should by their late 20s.

Sorry Furious1, I work in reality and people with your paradigms definitely don’t wind up in corner offices. In fact you don’t wind up even close to corporate America. The mail room doesn’t count.

1. Can’t we celebrate St. Pattie’s day (w/o being Irish) christmas (w/o being christian), or the 5th of May (w/o being Mexican), just for the sake of enjoying ourselves? I mean you’re often celebrating the spirit of and the celebration itself, not the actual milestone it marks.

Halloween is likely a Scottish/Irish Pagan, tradition that has been Americanized and made fun! So from now on… No candy for minorities, Christians, Jews, Muslims, (or Anglos, Frenchies, Slavs, Italians, Germans!) on Halloween!!!
So if any of you turds who are so damn offended by green beer have ever trick or treated, attended a Halloween party, or carved a pumpkin… REPENT! for this is not a holiday for YOU!

You’re going to argue someone’s opinion of if a beer tastes better from one place to another? really? I don’t like Bud Lite, but it seems to taste better on a hot day at the ball park than when my buddies bring it over! Egg Nog tastes better during the holidays… It’s the experience stupid.

Seriously anyone offended by this hilarious site is clearly missing the point. I’m a honky through and through and find this site funny because much of it is true. take the piss out of yourselves will ya?

Oh and btw. Corned beef and Cabbage is Awesome if cooked properly! Damnit now I’m hungry…

*disclaimer: I’m 1/2 German 1/2 Irish and I’ve never been to Ireland.*

Bravo “repost”. I’m from an Irish immigrant family (since late 1600’s). We’ve tried to stay as Irish as possible but, sometimes some middle handsome Europeans have snuck in. I am familiar with relatives through 5 generations (I’m 80)this amounts to at least 100 aunts, uncles, cousins etc. The only drunks I’ve seen, were the Europeans, who, by the way, do not limit their boozing to Saint Pat’s Day. So there!!!

“Guinness tastes better in Ireland” is the biggest f-ing farce ever committed. It tastes the goddamn same. I went to Ireland for the express purpose of trying this much better tasting Guinness. I was disappointed with my discovery that it does, in fact, taste absolutely no different there than it does here in the States. While it may have been true at some point in the not so distant past, modern refrigeration techniques has made it completely possible to have the same quality beverage all over the world.

Having observed St. Patrick’s Day celebrations in the U.S., I have to disagree that this holiday is anything like what some Jewish people feel for Israel. (I say “some” because I know that not nearly the majority of Jewish people are in favor of a Jewish State. There are religious reasons for that.)

My experience with those that celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in the U.S. is that a vast majority of them would not be able to point out Ireland on an atlas, would ask you what retirement has to do with green beer if you mention the IRA and likely do not have a clue who St. Patrick was or what century he lived.

These people are not perpetuating myths, espousing tribalism and/or violence nor have much of a grasp of history, nostalgic or otherwise.

What they are doing is getting drunk on beer with green food coloring.

hahaha… I loved the “it takes better in Ireland” part. I spent St. Patrick’s Day in Dublin last year (should I lie and say it was for business? nah) and saw babies with fake red beards. Only white people would give their babies FAKE beards.

Irish assimilated to “Anglo-Americanism”, but that never meant they weren’t White!! Don’t any of you morons have eyes that work?

My God, how easily Whites can be duped by a clever book title. (written by a virulent anti-White racist and Leftist marxist). Ignatiev is damn hideous too, a fucking White-hater of the top order.

Sooo True. My nutty Prof. tried to use this as a source and the TA (who’s a Sikh and also a leftist) went behind his back to tell all of us to read but only as an example of liberalism run amok. It’s kind of sad that the only person who is standing up for white people is a young man in a turban and a che shirt. I’m sure he thought of Michelle Malkin for a second and questioned his own sanity.

Most of my family lives in Ireland but I get kind of weird around Saint Patricks day. I feel almost like a black person if there was a minstrel show day. Buut I do get massively ripped and tell people I’m hungarian.

Also–mexicans and mongolians should be grandfathered in as officially Irish for the day.

Just like to add that I think Saint Patricks is subversively becoming “cool to be white day”. If the day ever comes when we have an official white history month, I’ll bet it’s March. The foundation is already being laid.

Paul, i think you might be late for your National Front meeting.
Unfortuantley, your glorious colonisers forgot to pack the democracy handbook when they embarked on their trail of murder and opression.

Ahh see those same people wrote the handbook on modern democracy, but they didn’t write the handbook on murder and opression.

I mean it’s not like the world was full of barbarism for 99% of its existence. Heck if you look at a place like China, it’s accomplishments were felt by a far broader portion of the population. Most of China has been literate for quite a long time now.

Side note, the africans weren’t selling themselves into slavery and the class of untouchables that still exist in West Africa—don’t pay any attention to that.

Truth is the IRA blew up many non-English. The troubles did no favours for the image of either side as one perpetuated acts of blatant terrorism while the other continued to oppress a nation they’d pretty much been oppressing since Cromwell.

That said, neither nation can seriously be generalised as c**ts, but that doesn’t mean that neither has their share of them…

You do come across as being somewhat bitter though, Paul.

I’m happily English, feel no sense of guilt for the acts of my compatriots and have a get on very well with the Irish… aren’t I great!

First of all – as an Irish Jew, the above post by middler is rediculous. Most people feel an affinity to their ancestral homeland. When their allies, or cousins are under seige it is natural to want to help. While on their surface, the conflicts appear to be the same, they are not. First of all Irish Catholics have a state. Its called the republic of Ireland. Even if the protestants gained full control of the North, they would still have a state. That is not to argue the merits of either Catholic, protestant, UK, shared power, home rule or any other “solution” to the troubles in Northern Ireland. It is simply to express a fundamental fact.

Israel is another story – It seems lately like the statute of limitations of post holocaust anti-semitism has expired and people feel comfortable returning to good old fashioned Jew hatin’. The statement above that starts “buzz off Jew” along with this one are shameful examples.

Israel is the successful result of a global refugee crisis caused by Christian and occultist antisemites and chamipioned by Christian Anglo-American allies of human rights and justice. It is the worlds biggest refugee camp. That the American Jewry supports it (both Ashkenazi and Sephardi) is not a surprise, nor is it something they should have to apologize for. A nation that has given the world the 10 commandments, the new testament, the theory of relativity, workers rights, and have contributed to every field of human endeavour far above their numbers and have been repayed with pogrom, inquisition, holocaust, expultion, forced conversion, and pithy anti-jewish blog comments is really disgusting. And before you say, “see every time you criticize Israel someone calls you anti-semitic” I would suggest that Israel is happy to be held to the same standards as every other nation. The problem gets to be when they are admonished for protecting their citizens against threats within and without in the same manner that any other country would and does daily.

I really hate it when I ask where Asian people are from and they tell me “LA”, “Bay Area” or “New York”. Just tell me your damned ethnicity already, you Chinese or Korean bitch. Why else would I ask you where you are from? Obviously, so that I do not mix my konichiwa with a nee-how.

I would expand this entry and say that White People Are Obsessed With The Irish. Every ethnicity has its goods and bads, and its; lovers and haters. Hell, even Italians are not liked by everybody – just ask southern French or the Austrians. But the Irish – well, they are just universally loved, and for no good reason, really, other than that they have never invaded or oppressed anybody.

Wow! I was surprised (pleasantly, too) that someone had actually used the words “white people” in a somewhat non-derogatory manner. My granny came over on the boat and only had a nip of blackberry brandy for medicinal puproses.

I think this should be added to the list of things white people like: white people like calling themselves mutts. Sample question posed to white person: “What is your background?” Usual Response: “I’m Irish, French, German, English and a little bit Scottish. I’m basically a mutt.” No. That just makes you white! OR they sometimes add Native American for extra flare, even if it is from like 200 years back, it MUST be mentioned. Extra points if that relative was a native “princess” or supposedly high ranking member of their tribe.

I suppose it makes them feel multi-cultural. It also devalues the experience of people that actually look bi-racial or multi-racial and are questioned about it ALL the time as a reminder that they don’t look “normal”. People that are asked where they are REALLY from (Hawaii? Brazil?).

I have yet to see someone approach a white American and say “Hmmm. Are you 1/2 English and 1/2 French? You look 1/2 English 1/2 French.” The word mutt also seems to be a word used almost exclusively by whites (racist and otherwise) to describe other people and/or dogs.

So, basically you are saying that you are Irish (at least a little right)?

I wouldn’t get so worked up, there are horrible things that happened to all colors of people in history. Most people don’t even know their own family history, sounds like you have a great deal of detailed information. That is something to be proud of. Knowing the types of people you came from can be challenging and inspiring. I wouldn’t take pride in making other people uncomfortable, but I am glad you took the opportunity to educate someone about a larger concept and your unique perspective on history. Maybe some day we can talk to your coworker about American Indians, the Japanese internment camps, the Chinese labor in the west, and all the other problems in our immediate US history.

“Liberals and respectable conservatives say there is this RACE problem. Everybody says this RACE problem will be solved when the third world pours into EVERY white country and ONLY into white countries.”

“The Netherlands and Belgium are more crowded than Japan or Taiwan, but nobody says Japan or Taiwan will solve this RACE problem by bringing in millions of third worlders and quote assimilating unquote with them.”

“Everybody says the final solution to this RACE problem is for EVERY white country and ONLY white countries to “assimilate,” i.e., intermarry, with all those non-whites.”

“What if I said there was this RACE problem and this RACE problem would be solved only if hundreds of millions of non-blacks were brought into EVERY black country and ONLY into black countries?”

“How long would it take anyone to realize I’m not talking about a RACE problem. I am talking about the final solution to the BLACK problem?”

“And how long would it take any sane black man to notice this and what kind of psycho black man wouldn’t object to this?”

“But if I tell that obvious truth about the ongoing program of genocide against my race, the white race, Liberals and respectable conservatives agree that I am a naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.”

making Patrick a saint may be the best joke the Catholic church has ever played on itself.

We don’t know much about him, but supposedly he was an expert at converting pagan practices and holidays into Christian. So the Shamrock, sacred to the Irish pagans because it was the first green to appear after the winter, became Patrick’s metaphor for the Christian Holy Trinity. For those who pay attention, this serves to perpetuate pagan beliefs and practices. Like celebrating the coming of spring in March.

He’s also said to have persuaded many Irish women to enter convents, which saved them from forced childbearing and early death.

He only left two pieces of writing. In one, his Confession, his opening line is “I, Patrick, a sinner, most rustic …” He was a Roman Briton, in whose native language pagan or heathen meant a country person, a rustic.

Thanks for letting all of us idiots in on the secrets. Celebrating the coming of spring in March wouldn’t have anything to do with the fact that it usually starts transitioning from winter weather to spring weather in March would it? How do we explain celebrating the coming of spring in Western European countries outside of Ireland who either didn’t know of him or consider him a minor saint, like the Irish would consider saint cyril or saint olaf–both of whom are important in other countries.

you make fun of everyone then some shitty blog does it back and you all go nuts, just shows how insecure you lot are. well, white people weren’t ever suppossed to live on that land – i mean what the fuck are you doing living there you !MORANS! white people are suppossed to live in europe…

st. pattys day lol, it’s paddy you fucking fools you can’t even do that right. you just wanna be the non oppressive white man, you want to feel different from all the other white people that talk, act, look like you. going on about how oppressed you are whistling us your immigrant story from the safety of middle-class suburbia. reading through this blog it seems that it should be renamed ‘stuff white americans like’ cos the real white people who live in the real home of white people and the only fucking place white have any business living in don’t like none of this shit – fuck i dunno what most of this crap is.

” i mean what the fuck are you doing living there you !MORANS! white people are suppossed to live in europe…”

Well what do you have against the Morans? I know many and they’re fine folk, let’s see there was Frankie Moran from 32nd St and his brother Jimmy. And the Morans from Downpatrick and the ones from Lurgan and even some from Kerry……

What is your problem? You need to chill out. When someone asks a white person what their background is, they don’t want the answer “white.” The person asking them already knows that because it’s their skin color. That’s just vision. They want to know your dominant ancestery or your full ancestery.

Also a lot of Americans are of partial Irish Catholic decent. Around 40 million. So it’s only natural for them to celebrate St. Pattrick’s Day. The same way Italian-Americans celebrate Columbus Day and Chicanos celebrate Cinco De Mayo. Like those Holidays, Irish Americans revolutionized the holiday to fit their experience. Corned beef and cabbage, St. Paddy’s Day Parades, green beer, “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling,” all invented in the Americas by Irish decendants.

The Irish went through a lot of shit in this country when they weren’t considered white. But they also did a lot of horrible things to be considered white. My patrilineal ancestors weren’t perfect, and they weren’t always oppressed. They were just people.

I’m pretty much a white American mutt. However, my patrilineal ancestors immigrated to the U.S. from Kilkenny during the potato famine and my father’s family has lived in a (non-Italian) urban Catholic enclave for generations. So they still exhibit some Irish American cultural tendencies.

My parents were born and raised in Ireland and I have no desire to visit that god forsaken liberal ass country. Actually I take that back, I wouldn’t want to confuse the effete, self hating, destruction through massive immigration landslide loving Irish who do nothing but kiss the ass of the UN and the EU–with american liberals who at least have hope and a will to survive.

Also, for such a tiny country Ireland has quite a few bastards trolling American websites just for the sole purpose of venting a little America hatred even though they don’t know why. What the Irish won’t tell you is that they depend on the U.S. for quite bit of trade including selling us microchips (well not really we just outsource some production to them) that we use throughout the DoD.

How does it feel to be a programmed bunch of mentally colonized pavlovian dogs?

I am an African American and I love your article. It is great to be able to step back from all these racial tensions in our Society and celebrate the uniqueness of your racial/ethnic group in a funny and harmless manner.
I look forward to reading more of your posting.
Peace and love from Manchester New Hampshire !

Wow, that was a long-winded, but thoughtful tirade…The only problem is that you only included Jewish virtues and no vices in it….For instance, you excluded how many times the Zionist state has bit the very hand of those Christian Anglo-American allies you mentioned earlier… It’s events like the Lavon Affair and the bombing of the U.S.S. Liberty that raise the ire of people, not the fact that they contributed to science or political endeavor far beyond their overall numbers….They also contributed to Communism far beyond their overall numbers, but you left that part out for some reason…If you’re going to state a believable case, you really need to expose both sides of the truth, not just what’s convenient to mention…Are you not appalled as I am that in 2005, Israel chose to honor those terrorists invovled in “Operation Susannah”?..Instead of aknowledging this outrage, you choose to just chalk up any negative sentiment to “good old fashion Jew hatin'”…I can admire and applaud Jewish men like Jerry Lewis who raises millions every year for M.S. research, or Steve Guttenberg who serves up Sunday breakfast to local homeless people, however, I cannot turn a blind eye when overwhelming segments of the larger Jewish community call for the release of a scoundrel like Jonathan Pollard…Now I’m not suggesting that there aren’t unstable individuals out there who hate Jews for the same reasons certain other unstable individuals kick puppies…What I AM saying is that to blow off any and all criticism of Israel or the Jewish community as anti-semitism is completely irresponsible and ignorant…I’d be more than happy to hold Israel to the same standards as every other nation, but they must first stop behaving like they’re above it…

Though life in Ireland was cruel, emigrating to America was not a joyful event…it was referred to as the American Wake for these people knew they would never see Ireland again. Those who pursued this path did so only because they new their future in Ireland would only be more poverty, disease, and English oppression. America became their dream. Early immigrant letters described it as a land of abundance and urged others to follow them through the “Golden Door.” These letters were read at social events encouraging the young to join them in this wonderful new country. They left in droves on ships that were so crowded, with conditions so terrible, that they were referred to as Coffin Ships.

Even as the boat was docking, these immigrants to America learned that life in America was going to be a battle for survival. Hundreds of runners, usually large greedy men, swarmed aboard the ship grabbing immigrants and their bags trying to force them to their favorite tenement house and then exact an outrageous fee for their services. As the poor immigrant had no means of moving on, they settled in the port of arrival. Almshouses were filled with these Irish immigrants. They begged on every street. One honest immigrant wrote home at the height of the potato famine exodus, “My master is a great tyrant, he treats me as badly as if I was a common Irishman.” The writer further added, “Our position in America is one of shame and poverty.” No group was considered lower than an Irishman in America during the 1850s.

Free land did not lure them. They rejected the land for the land had rejected them; yet even so they always spoke reverently of the old sod in Ireland. All major cities had their “Irish Town” or “Shanty Town” where the Irish clung together. Our immigrant ancestors were not wanted in America. Ads for employment often were followed by “NO IRISH NEED APPLY.” They were forced to live in cellars and shanties, partly because of poverty but also because they were considered bad for the neighborhood…they were unfamiliar with plumbing and running water. These living conditions bred sickness and early death. It was estimated that 80% of all infants born to Irish immigrants in New York City died. Their brogue and dress provoked ridicule; their poverty and illiteracy provoked scorn.

The Chicago Post wrote, “The Irish fill our prisons, our poor houses…Scratch a convict or a pauper, and the chances are that you tickle the skin of an Irish Catholic. Putting them on a boat and sending them home would end crime in this country.”

Instead of apologizing for themselves they united and took offense. Insult or intimidation was often met with violence. Solidarity was their strength, they helped each other survive city life. They prayed and drank together. The men seemed to do more drinking than praying, yet it was their faith and dogged determination to become Americans that led one newspaper to say, “The Irish have become more Americanized than the Americans.”

The Church played an integral part in their lives. It was a militant Church–a Church who fought not only for their souls but also for their human rights. After the religious riots in Philadelphia where many Catholic churches were burned, the mayor of New York asked Archbishop Hughes, “Do you fear that some of your churches will be burned.” “No sir, but I am afraid some of yours will be. We can protect our own.”

Later, public officials asked the Archbishop to restrain New York’s Irish. “I have not the power,” he said. “You must take care that they are not provoked.” No Catholic church burned in New York.

Actually the Irish arrived at a time of need for America. The country was growing and it needed men to do the heavy work of building bridges, canals, and railroads. It was hard, dangerous work, a common expression heard among the railroad workers was “an Irishman was buried under every tie.” Desperation drove them to these jobs.

Not only the men worked, but the women too. They became chamber maids, cooks, and the caretakers of children. Early Americans disdained this type of work, fit only for servants, the common sentiment being, “Let Negroes be servants, and if not Negroes, let Irishmen fill their place…”

A prominent hotel keeper was asked why all the women servants in his hotel were Irish. He replied, “The thing is very simple: the Irish girls are industrious, willing, cheerful, and honest–they work hard, and they are very strictly moral. I should say that is quite reason enough.”

The Irish were unique among immigrants. They fiercely loved America but never gave up their allegiance to Ireland…and they kept their hatred of the English. Twice they tried to invade Canada, believing that they could trade Canadian land for Ireland’s freedom. In New York City, during the Civil War, they rioted against the draft lottery after the first drawing showed most of the names were Irish. For three days the city was terrorized by Irish mobs and only after an appeal for peace by Archbishop Hughes did it end. In Pennsylvania they formed a secret organization called the Molly Maguires to fight mine owners who brutalized the miners and their families. They ambushed mine bosses, beat, and even killed them in their homes. The Irish used brutal methods to fight brutal oppression. They loved America and gladly fought in her wars. During the Civil War they were fierce warriors, forming among other groups, the famous “Irish Brigade”. A priest accompanied them and, before each battle, they would pray together before charging into the enemy–even against insurmountable odds. Their faith guided them. They felt the English might have a better life on earth, but they were going to have a better life after death.

The days of “No Irish Need Apply” passed. St.Patrick day paraded replaced violent confrontations. The Irish not only won acceptance for their day, but persuaded everyone else to become Irish at least for St.Patrick’s Day. The Orangemen or New York City copied the St.Pat’s Day parade in 1870 and, as they marched, played “Boyne Water”, “Derry” and other songs derogatory towards the Catholics. Fights broke out and only the police (themselves mostly Irish) saved the Orangemen and women. The next year another Orange parade was scheduled…the police banned it.

The appearance of large numbers of Jews, Slavs, and Italian immigrants led many Americans to consider the Irish an asset; their Americanization was now recognized. Hostility shifted from the Irish to the new nationalities. Through poverty and subhuman living conditions, the Irish tenaciously clung to each other. With their ingenuity for organization, they were able to gain power and acceptance.

In 1850 at the crest of the Potato Famine immigration, Orestes Brownson, a celebrated convert to Catholicism, stated: “Out of these narrow lanes, dirty streets, damp cellars, and suffocating garrets, will come forth some of the noblest sons of our country, whom she will delight to own and honor.”

In little more than a century his prophecy rang true. Irish-Americans had moved from the position of the despised to the oval office.

Irish Am History – did you really compose that small lecture on here just to be comment #675 – or whatever that no one else will read except for us poor saps who made the mistake of getting all these fucking comments back in our “my comments” account on wordpress?

Not only is the spelling off, but Saint Patric did NOT bring catholicism to Ireland. He brought Christianity. The Catholic eventually made him a saint in an attempt to change the popular religion to Catholicism. It a common misconception.
ANYWAY!

I love St. Patrick’s day! And the Dropkick Murphys! (FAV BAND AND HOLIDAY!!!!)

Huh? I’m Irish and I’ll admit that the stereotype of Irish drunkenness is unfortunately very true. However, the Irish have a strong economy based on a careful and driven workforce that speaks english (hmm a few good things have come from British occupation) and seeks to compete in the global market. Violence, I wouldn’t say they are as predisposed to it as the average british soccer fan.

Eugene: Next time be more specifc with your question to avoid confusion. When someone ask me where I am from, not just a white person, black, hispanic or fellow asians, I tell them that I am from Seattle. Now if they ask me what my heritage is, then I tell them I am Pilipino. So, Eugene, where are you from? That’s not what I meant dumb ass, I meant what is your heritage.

Come on, you don’t like your freckles and blue eyes?
“A freckle ne’er lit on a din skin” Irish grandpop used to say. White people really like trying to change their whiteness with bronzers and tanning salons.

Snorted my Smitick’s on that one, OWG; love yer humour.
Jaysus, there’re some way-too-serious types posting here.
BTW, how d’yez drive on the wrong side and know how to
navigate on those roundabout thingies? Terrifyin’… Ooops,
it’s half-three, time to recline.

This book is bullshit . The Irish did not integrate into WASP society they surpassed it and the pathetic little nativists who comprised it, We are the most successful and affluent ethnic group in this country . Because we value education we were able to confront WASP society on its own terms and beat them. Don’t believe some Marxist bullshit that they let us in,we beat them and they know it. Do as well.

Oh my goodness!! I moved to Chicago about 6 years ago and damn it if white people don’t LOVE LOVE LOVE St. Patty’s Day! I don’t know about anywhere else, but in Chicago people can walk around the city drinking beer, liquor, gasoline… whatever the hell they want and they start at 8AM!!! I’d rather be stranded in Compton at 3am than be in the streets of Chicago on St. Patty’s Day!! LOL!!

I have got to say this website is absolute trash. It does nothing but promote more racism. Can you imagine the backlash if there was a website called “Stuff Black People Like”? Its ok though because this one is making fun of white people..not blacks…they would get all offended and sue somebody.

Explotatoin of a stereotype for pure profit? Seriously, irish people couldn’t be further from the caucasian stereotype. You come to ireland and go to some of the proper local towns and villages. go to leitrum. caucasian liberal ideals don’t come into the eqution when women can still be stoned to death for adultery.

unless you live here, your not irish, no matter how proud you are. End of story. only true born and bred irish people understand true irish culture. its hard to explain, and even if i could i wouldn’t for fear of death.

What are you talking about cabbage for? The problem with asking a white American their background is that 9 times out of 10 the only legit. background/experience they have is a generic white American one. If you dropped the average American that claims partial Irish “background” in Ireland, they wouldn’t know their ass from their elbow. So what we end up with is a bunch of people with minimal or diluted Irish roots trying to be a part of something by drinking green beer. It just seems like a desperate attempt to cling to a culture that isn’t theirs anymore. It may have been for the first generation that came to the U.S., but wearing green one day out of the year and eating corned beef doesn’t make you Irish. I’m quoting another post that said, ” unless you live here, your not irish, no matter how proud you are. End of story. “

I think a lot of you are missing the point of this… Though the Irish are most definitely an ethnic group (that has been shat on by the oppressive power of the English) and by circumstance has fair skin (or sometimes not), that one aspect lends itself oh-so-well to the would be Irish (i.e. white “americans”) who might at best be ten percent Irish and are looking for another occasion to “throw cation into the wind” and get wasted and make fools of themselves at the expense of another “exotic” holiday that they really know nothing about (ex. Carnival, Dia de los Muertos and Cinco de Mayo).

anyone who doesn’t see the humor and/or gets personally offended by these valid observations is only denying their own racist tendencies that they need to get past.

I’m from the neighbouring county to Leitrim (not leitrum). No-one in Ireland gets stoned to Death, half the country is the throes of committing adultry and no-one bats an eye. The only people getting stoned are the middle-classes on their imported weed.

That is such a hilarious comment that I must email my mates with it so that we can all get a laugh. Stoned to Death for Adultery, you’re gas!

You cannot credit the Ten Commandments, the new testament, the theory of relativity, and worker’s rights to people from members of the nation of Israel. They were also Americans, Poles, and Germans, in addition to being Jewish. However, at the time these things were created, there was no Israel as a nation-state. What I credit to Israel as a nation-state is somehow managing to create a state out of millions of refugees who had the world’s sympathies after wwII and managing to incur wrath in the decades that followed through occupation of palestine, human rights abuses and dehumanization of palestinians. Yes, Israel is being attacked by some, but deserves some retaliation for their military attack in civilians.

Cinco de Mayo is another holiday just like St. Patty’s day, but funnier. The same people who claim to be Irish on St. Patrick’s Day celebrate Cinco de Mayo. Well, they celebrate it by getting pants shitting drunk, but I’m sure none of them could tell you why it is a holiday in the first place.

The Church split along geographical lines. The Western lands, with the inclusion of Poland and Romania, went Catholic and the Eastern lands went Orthodox. Prior to 1054, they were the same Church Universal. All under the supervision of the Bishop of Rome, the Catholics have a rightful claim to.

The ‘I love you’ thing. Yeah, it always unnerves me when white American blokes act macho as hell and then go around hugging each other and telling each other they love each other in public.

And I was out with a bunch of white American dudes last week and one of em went into a long story about how when he was in Ireland drinking a pint of Guinness he actually called the states to tell a friend “Guess what, I’m in Ireland drinking a pint of Guinness”. When the story was over they all turned to look at me for some kind of approval. I said “Yeah, good stuff” while really wanting to say “thanks for the public stereotyping”. Thing is, I get this kind of thing on a daily basis. One white American friend who hangs out with me a lot now tells me he squirms with embarrassment when this kind of thing happens!!! Its water off my back though – I like to call it ‘affectionate bigotry’ or ‘profiling lite’.

I used to do the St. Patrick’s Day thing in my 20s and early 30s, but showing up at the office on the 18th all hung over lost it’s appeal. Why did I do it? Well, I am 7/8 Irish and because all my buddies did it, too. I’d wear the “Kiss Me, I’m Irish” button on my belt buckle, pick up some chick who I wouldn’t go near sober, and do it in the back of my Suburban. At least I’d wait until after work to go out. I knew some guys who used to start at lunch.

The closest I have come to that in recent years (since say, 1994) was visiting a local Irish Pub owned by a friend of mine on that day in 2007 with my wife. We had a beer (Guiness for me, Harp for her) and I FINALLY went home with someone I wanted to be next to the following morning. No hangover either.

completely ignoring the fact that there are not a ton of black (asian, latino, etc?) in ireland…

just because something is for black people too doesn’t mean white people can’t like it. is there actually anything on this list that’s solely for white people? or are coffee, bicycles, and scarves for white people only?

Mentioning drinking on St. Patrick’s Day and not listening to huge amounts of “The Pogues” is just unacceptable. Especially the song “Body of an American” which was made more popular on my and fellow white people favorite shows “The Wire.”

Most Irish people are criminals and should be avoided at all costs. They excel at drinking, fighting and vomiting on each other. All the Irish want is their fucking dole, rotten scumbags I say, go have another pint and piss your pants.

[1] If you see someone breaking some minor law, and it’s not actually causing injury; ignore it. Put up with it, secure in the knowledge that Irish people will pay you back by letting you break minor laws when your time comes. Never say “Hey! What do you think you’re doing?” unless you are a member of the police.

[2] Don’t speak your mind directly. It is considered social failure to say what you are thinking in plain language. Instead, you must wrap your message in a witty and oblique comment designed to amuse your companions. Everybody in Ireland wishes to be a comedian. If the recipient of the message fails to decode it, that’s their problem for being stupid.

[3] You may slander the Pope, you may allege that St. Patrick was intimate with sheep, but you must never question the chemical dependency of Irish culture on alcohol. For you, the word ‘drink’ is synonymous with ‘good’.

[4] Lower all your standards and expectations. This will help you to live happily in Ireland where almost everything is crap by European or American standards. But if you come from a dysfunctional Third Word country, you can skip this step.

[5] Be negative. When you hear bad things about people, pass them on. Be especially vindictive towards people who try hard and succeed.

St Patricks Day isn’t just a white peoples day, it’s one for people of all cultures colours, creeds, religions (except the ones that don’t condone drink) to get pissed with the guarantee of some guy who got sainted’s approval.

Ugh! Nothing worse than a bunch of yanks talking about ethnicity and claiming to be Irish/know about culture. You’re arguments are almost certainly and chronically tawdry . I really have only one issue here, though. Some idiot roughly spewed the rambling monologue “I asked my mom if I had Irish in me and she said yes. I wanted Viking blood in me”

Ok, I forget this egregious hound’s name, but I quote him as above. Unfortunately this dog has erroneously skipped over the fact the Vikings invaded Ireland roughly around the 7th an 8th AD (being an Atheist: AD is, of course, a fictional date imo, but it gives you the rough idea that it was a long time ago) and intermarried with the Irish, adopting their names and customs and became “more Irish than the Irish themselves” . Almost ALL Irish people (people like me, who were born and raised in Ireland..yeah that‘s right…actual Irish people…) have some Viking in them.

All it comes down to is the Americans are idiots Not all of course, but the vast, vast majority. An intelligent American would admit this. We‘ve build an entire industry on our stereotypes, so we don‘t care. You, however, are the worlds whipping boys when it comes to idiots…the English are fine…they just had a bunch of overblown Arthurian cockroaches running their empire for a long time…Cromwell, being the turd that he was, even banned singing….what an abhorrent man! But saying that, he was totally fair and gave the Irish equal opportunities in the middle ages. HaHa, just kidding. He was basically the Irish people’s very own Hitler. And yet to this day, he is worshiped by mongoloid orange men and English Protestants. Oh well at least it’s 2008 we‘re loaded….we are super awesome

you mean they DYE the damn river green … see #99. and the guinness DOES taste better in ireland if you have taste buds. i know, i’m very white. this site reminds me everytime i read it … absolutely hilarious. by the way, i’m 1/8th irish. (c;

The thing about people always saying “Guinness tastes better in Ireland”? Totally true. Of course, it’s nonsense (I did live in Ireland for a year, you provincial miscreants!). But people always say it because they think it makes them sound cool and cultured or whatever. Too funny!

This list is obviously meant to be primarily pejorative, but still, I’m having fun reading it.

this whole who/what is Irish is just hilarious. St. Patrick’s day celebrations are about as much about celebrating Irish heritage as Christmas is about Christ. Both are pretty much crass commercialized holidays. I am not really Irish, Irish great grandparents, but also English, French Canadian Grandparents, and not really a Christian, my mother is Catholic but I don’t consider myself to be anything, but I celebrate them both, St. Patrick’s Day because I want to get drunk and listen to live music at a pub and Christmas because I like getting gifts and eating Turkey. The great thing about St. Patrick’s Day is really you don’t have to do much planning, no shopping, no gift wrapping you don’t have to drive anywhere or have dinner with boring relatives just hit a local pub and take the next day off work.

beer can be pretty usefull like turning something from boring to trolerable like family gatherings like x-mas or turkey day get drunk stuff your gut win win pass out wake up find out u have been victim of “white” prank with majic marker wash face.

kinney’s the name drinkings the game got off a mightnight shift drinking a pabst got a few 24’s listen to drew and mike(wrif.com)now just mike and readin this crap that is funny and true of mainstream white society don’t really fit into this site but really haven’t read all dson’t really fit in like a peg uncdle sam would have my head cause i think for myself
i don’t like green eggs and ham give me a case than a burger will do i guess the buzz is showing cause my grammer sure sucks if you don’t like it rewright for me what the fuck.

You know your people don’t celebrate St Patrick’s Day, and refuse to believe it in fact, exists. Tomorrow’s for you… the glorious twelfth… you should light a fire, maybe throw some tires on it… or Catholics, you know, whatever.

Okay as an Irish person lol. We HATE that americans pretend to be Irish. And pretend being Irish is somewhat associated with suffering. Its not at all lol. St. Patrick’s Day is about the four million of US. Not every single American who has one great great great grandparent who was a Protestant from Belfast and didn’t probably consider themselves Irish anyways.

Do what you want, really… but we are NOT impressed when hearing that you have such and such an ancestor whose surname was something or another, or that they left after the famine, or that you’re oh my god, so Irish because you bought this t-shirt once AND you drink Guiness.

Irish people don’t drink guiness. Except really really old men. Its not cool, its kind of disgusting, and it tastes like mould. Seriously, diageo want to PULL OUT people.

Normans = Norsemen/ Northmen = Vikings:
Some of the Vikings conquered northern France/Normandy, settled a bit, and went on to conquer the Isles, including Ireland (they also bothered other places down south on the continent).

Joe, get a grip and take your zoloft, quick. Every American I know who has been to Ireland recently got a series of self rightous political speeches before they got out of the first cab. Yes, we know we are not really Irish. We’re not pretending to be. Were just celebrating a day that is also celebrated in Ireland. You really have to work to be offended by that. Maybe you should check out #101 being offended. They could put your picture next to that one.

Sure an begorrah! Top o the marnin to ya,ya heathen bastards!! Sure an its meself an’ maggie O’Rourke wuz getting drunk an didnt i slip off her panties and Saints preserve us!–what a hairy Bush!!! By the Grace O’ God,Saints be praised,I fooked her good! But not,thank the Blesed Virgin,before I ate that hot pussy! Who says irish dont eat well?????

We hate that the Irish back in the old Emerald Isle dream of being British while feeling inferior to them. The old slave-master problem on a national level.

We also hate that you think of yourselves as Celtic Tigers when you are mostly under educated farmers living high on American high tech firms camped out in Ireland to avoid higher taxes in other more developed EU countries while feeding from EU taxpayers and taking your over inflated real estate incomes to buy cheap flats in Spain which have now dropped in value leaving you to go back to the bog and feel inferior to the Brits again.
American Irish often wonder why when the British starved 75% of the population of the country in the 19th century while leaving you few to stay.

Irish McIrish you are just a bog Irish idiot feeling put upon by the British and inferior to them.

Why not try to get an EU handout or a job at a US high tech firm outside Dublin. Get a few bob in your pocket and open up a fake “Irish” bar in Spain where you can turn your hobby into a profession: drinking.

Hibernia, you would fear death because the Irish have been killing each other for the last 400 years- a non stop civil war- that is your Irish “culture” and the most backward country in Western Europe and the least educated.

The only things the Irish of Ireland have contributed to Western culture are a few songs- forget your famous beer- that was invented by an Englishman.

I go to the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in NYC every year. I bring along my book of shamrock stickers. During the parade, I walk among the crowd and ask people (Black, White, Asian, whatever) if they are Irish. If they answer “no”, they get a shamrock sticker slapped on them. They are Irish for the Day!

I prefer the discerning literate gentleman’s Irish day, anyway – Bloomsday, 16 June, the day celebrated in James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’. 17 March seems to me (in the UK anyhow) to be one huge Guinness advert and besides, “Go to a pub and have a lot to drink” – how does this differ from other days really?
To make matters worse, in England we seem to have started copying the Irish and doing the same thing on 23 April, St George’s Day, never mind that 23 April isn’t an official holiday, England doesn’t have a national day, there is very little tradition of it, and why should our national day if we had one be linked to Christianity?
23 April is also Shakespeare’s birthday and if people wanted to make it Shakespeare Day, now then I would be in favour of it.

Yikes…someone seems a bit bitter! Maybe…just maybe did you consider that the first head of state was of Spanish origin because there is just a little less hatred and discrimination than you, yourself, might have?

Irish people owned slaves, and were probably the biggest oppressors of Italian and Greek-Americans. So I wouldn’t exactly think of them as innocent victims. Being Irish is boring anyway so I don’t see why people are so proud of it. Everyone’s Irish. Big deal.

It’s probably been said before, but as a child in Ireland, St Patrick’s Day was the most pointless holiday of all. Zealots went to church. To everyone else, it was just a day off. Now we feel obliged to celebrate and the booze hounds amongst us have another excuse to drink, simply because the rest of the world believes this is what we should do. The reality has been adjusted to suit the myth. Weird.

No offense but I’m glad the holiday (to Americans) is more a celebration of having Irish ancestry and getting intoxicated. Better than praising someone for spreading Catholicism. Look at the wonders that did for Ireland.

Both my parents have Masters degrees actually… and de Valera was our SECOND head of state. I don’t rely on American multinationals, in fact, the largest renewable energy corporation in the world is owned by an irishman… my uncle if you don’t mind.

We have the second highest per capita number of millionaires in the world. that’s not from mooching off some other country.

No Irish person I know dreams of being British… you must be thinking of northern ireland… a common mistake for an idiot.

Undereducated is a joke by the way. You’re american! have you taken a LOOK at our leaving cert? not to mention the fact that most people my age are coming out of universities and using their skills for more than your people EVER could.

75% of our population? no. get your facts straight before you try to argue with an irish person. particularly an irish person who’s doing leaving cert history, because you’re WELL out of your league.

Our VAT is 21%… we more than make up for our EU incentives. But how would you know? pretending to know what you’re talking about and ACTUALLY knowing what you’re talking about are very different things and you should learn not to play with fire… or the irish because we’re DAMN smart.

and one of the few sustainable countries on the failed states index… fourth from the bottom, after norway, iceland and some other country VASTLY happier, more successful and with a better quality of life (and education) than yours.

I’m just trying to correct somebody who thinks St Patrick’s Day has something to do with their heritage when it doesn’t. I celebrate Youth Day with my South African friends to commemorate the Soweto uprising, but I’m not going around with the misconception that it has ANYTHING to do with me.

Read things before you comment on them thanks. It’ll save us all a load of time

Why don’t Americans actually admit they are chiefly descendants of the “German race”, instead of continuing this farce that they are all really Irish. Where exactly is there any evidence – other than superficial – of Irish influence on American culture?

Actually, under Cromwell the Irish were enslaved by the British directly and sent to Jamaica and were also defacto slaves serving as indentured servants. Might I also suggest that you do a quick google search for Black slave owners before trying to come off as a keyboard historian.

Additionally, I’d like to add St. Patrick’s day in its current form is a money making farce for brewers and distillers.

As someone who was born in New Ross and then moved to the US as a child, I can play both sides of the fence. I also visit often and keep in touch with my family at home.

I see your point, but you also sound like a self righteous prick with a chip on his shoulder. It wouldn’t surprise me if you were one of the neo-age yuppies sipping shandies at the pub and then takes off in his Jaguar en route to a night cap at Starbucks. Let me guess, you live in Dublin too.

Ireland has a lot to thank the US for. First off, De Valera, one of the primary authors of the Irish Constitution was a yank. Secondly from the famine years up until the 1980’s, who provided the primary place to escape the horrible economy at home and provided work for millions? That’s right the US. Thirdly, excluding funds funneled to the IRA, there were innumerable charities helping fund basic needs such as the education system you so tout. Who did that come from back in years not so long gone? Yes, you guessed it, the Irish-American immigrants you so detest.

If people want some means of identifying with their ancestors, be it 1/16 or whatever what business of it is yours to launch off in to a sermon? I find St. Patrick’s day to be a mutated joke as well. That didn’t seem to stop Dublin from extending it in to St. Patrick’s week however to suck in as many tourist dollars and euros as possible.

Once you descend from your high and mighty cloud, you may want to try and look at things from others points of views. It might help you get your head out of your ass.

That’s nice! You are my kinda gal! I celebrate St. Patty’s day…and many times I get no so friendly stares.
I think next year I will wear a sticker shamrock in memory of you and your diversity! Seriously.

Wow this list is so eerily…accurate to me…that I think I will finally sign off after hours of being in this same seat responding to people who posted here weeks ago.

Yeah, Singh is King, you are way off. Everyone here is not German. What would even make you think that? English would be a more obvious guess. Most people here are a great mix of Western European heritage – English, German, Irish, Polish, French, Italian, etc.

Probably referring to the fact that the Angles and Saxons are German — English/Anglish and England/Angland.

Of course, they were in turn conquered by the Normans (Norse Men) from France. Though the Normans mostly made up a ruling class rather than a colonizing people that displaced the Anglo-Saxon population.

Then again, the Normans did bring a goodly bunch with them. Mostly Bretons (Britains) from Brittany in France. So the Celtic Britains came home, merged with Anglo-Saxons and the Celtic Welsh who remained behind and never submitted to the Anglo-Saxons which brings us full circle.

am white english irish, i dot drink guinness it taste horrible, and dont bovver with st pats day find it boreing..i do love english football..leicester city football club..up the foxes…keep it up black bloke ur writing is funny……

@Bondy, tut tut…you’re such a little tool. Most of the US high tech firms are closed down now. What are you talking about? At least know the facts if you want to comment.

Also by the use of the word “bob” I guess you’re English. Some council estate English person, possibly from the north. Your dad, if you know the guy, probably works down a mine or is on the Giro and you identify with the crown and British Nationalism because you’re insecure and you want identity. It’s a primitive state of mind but a common one, especially with the peasant classes of certain nations.

The suggestion being put upon by the British? How exactly? I’m from the South, born in 1983…how the hell would the British “put” anything “upon” me. I Never once felt any implications from the British administration. Also National identity to me is pointless…where you’re born was an accident of birth and yet you feel the need to reply to some bullshit post that I made taking the piss? So your argument of inferiority falls flat on it’s face.

I’ve loads of English mates btw, but I steer clear of the nationalistic ones, because just like Irish nationalists and nationalists every where else, they’re generally idiots.

Bullshit, I would have the say that on the contrary, any “dream” or “wannabe” culture is acutually Californian, which stems from crap like the OC, whereas England has a shows called…Cornation street…or maybe Eastenders. The kids don’t aspire to be Pate Butcher or Vera Duckworth mate.

Also people identify with Nationalism because they’re insecure and they want identity. It’s a primitive state of mind but a common one, especially with certain nations. Surely everyone who “gets” this website is familiar with this concept.

I never once felt any implications from the British administration. I live in the south and was born in 1983. I’m completely oblivious to any from of British oppression which was just romanticised by the Irish nationalists anyway.

I’ve loads of English mates btw, but I steer clear of the nationalistic ones, because just like Irish nationalists and nationalists every where else, they’re generally idiots.

Wrong mate. She’s talking about NY, back a century ago when the Irish were pretty rough on black and outsiders.

The Irish “oppression” from the English is a bit like st pats day. Blown up. Sure the British were cunts back in the day. Religious nuts. But they were cunts to their own people too. And this is coming from a born and bread Irishman.

Oh and the Irish “oppression” from the English is a bit like st pats day. Blown up. Sure the British were cunts back in the day. Religious nuts like cromwell. But they were cunts to their own people too. And this is coming from someone who is Irish.

Surely everyone who “gets” this web site is familiar with the whole concept of nationalism is meaningless…causes conflict, for idiots blah blah blah…you know if were all left wing libs…huh?

I don’t think that’s it – there were never that many Anglo Saxons outside South East England anyway, England is really divided into a Celtic west and a Scandinavian east, much like Scotland (not that Eddie is wrong basically, he’s right about the Normans). It’s more likely to be the prevalence of German surnames in the US – there are far more people with German and other Central European ancestry than most of us would think. And isn’t everyone a bit of a mixture anyway?

Incidentally, I’m curious why there are so few references to booz in this blog when there is almost nothing white people love more then getting completely smashed off there asses on the most expensive spirits possible. Do a few posts on beer, wine tastings and crown royal, plus beer pong to get a good picture of white folk at there best.

I have mixed feelings about this holiday…. on one hand, I’m a fiddle player, and St. Patrick’s Day= good gigs. On the other… I really want to smack a fake Irish person. They’re right up there on my peeve list with fake Scots and fake Native Americans. I’m also expected, apparently, to join in and celebrate, even though my only connection to Irish ancestry a far-off and lonely great-great-grandparent who was shuffled off to Canada with a bunch of Scots. Bottom line– I don’t want your green beer.

Wow racist. You have no idea what your talking about. What’s you race, I’m sure I can find 50 stereotypes about it and we’ll see how you feel. But, I’m a proud Irish person so I’m not going to sink to your level of stupidity and ignorance.

You know, my parents are from Ireland and growing up it was a day we could cheat and eat what we gave up for Lent. I went to college and discovered my Jewish, Italian, and mixed friends all celebrated. I admit I go out on St. Patrick’s day, but I am a little resentful that everyone comes out in drives to celebrate the Christianization of Ireland, but we can’t even mention to word “Christmas.”

I have mixed feelings about St. Patrick’s Day. I sometimes want to shake people and say “I’m Irish 365, bitches!” But at the same time it’s not such a big deal, considering that by now, as you said, Irish=generic whitey. It’s not like I get discriminated against for it. Though…I do love Irish music (not just the Dropkick Murphys, thanks so much).

Wow. There is far more to St. Patrick’s day than alcohol, but I’m proud of you for grasping that much of it. Some people go to church and celebrate with their families. Some people use this time of year to tell their children about their family’s past. This post is nothing short of hateful and racist. But then, you know that.

Poking fun at drunks pretending to be Irish while on the street at a parade is one thing, but singling Irish people out as an ethnicity and talking about our ancestors and oppression? Since you’re not Irish, what the hell do you know about it?

Your bloated opinion of the people who celebrate this holiday – most of them not even Irish – shows not only your ignorance, but brings to light the superior opinion you have of yourself over others.

Congratulate yourself over the wonderful service you’re doing to spread racial harmony. You’ve done a great deal to smooth the path with this post alone.

“But since the Irish never engaged in colonialism and were actually oppressed it is considered acceptable and encouraged to celebrate their ancestry. For this reason, 100% of white people are proud to claim that they are somewhat Irish”

Come-on! That’s hilarious! Besides, since Ireland’s National Day gets celebrated in half a dozen ex British colonies – we’re doing all right 🙂

nope…it’s not. oh-, but in america, they advertise budweiser and coors year long during all sporting events, so guiness is considered quality beer over here ( admittingly, i LOVE it)
but for what type of beer white peope like, see the post on micro brewries.

The people drinking green beer are most likely not Irish. However, the probability is very high that they are being laughed at by 100% Irish people like myself while I drink my Beamish.

My Nana was born and raised in the Rebel County (Up Cork!). Her first memory as a child was of English terrorists beating down the door of her Nana’s house to try to find her uncle, a priest, so they could beat him to a pulp and jail him.

I was allowed to swear if I was referring to that orthodontically challenged inbred family living at Buckingham Palace. I don’t drink Black and Tans because I know what they draw their name from and see no need to memorialize them.

I believe that the uneducated people you are referring to you are most likely once-a-year Irishmen. Don’t lump us all in with the ignorant.

For anyone who is a christian they should realise that after the Roman empire fell Christianity all but disappeared for the rest of the world and Ireland, having not been colonised by the Romans were the ones that returned Christianity to the rest of the world, so the man that brought Christianity to Ireland is pretty important to the Christian world and that St Pats is a very important day for those who are. That said, i am not christian and really do like getting drunk on St Pat’s and remembering that I am part Irish.
But people do have a point that this sight is very racist an the whites are the only ones that could have and like, a sight that is really racist towards them, most other races would get very angry at such a sight and at the comments that people who arent white say about white people on this sight. Just be careful… trying for equality is one thing but dont do it by dragging others down.

Well, some Irish were sent to Jamaica as slaves, but on the other hand, the Gaels from Ulster (Northern Ireland / North of Ireland) destroyed the Pictish culture in Northern Britain by Colonizing it (the article is wrong, the Irish were colonists at one time).

Not that any of that matters, but you’re right, it is an overly commercial holiday.

St. Patrick’s Day in it’s current form is as Irish as Yankee Doodle Dandy. Until about 10 years ago in Ireland, a small number of old men paraded around in green shashes and ill-fitting black suits, religious people went to Mass, sporty people went to various high school soccer/rugby/GAA championship matches and most people enjoyed the day off work and maybe got a little drunk in a pub, without green beer or emptying a factory full of green dye into the local river.

Then, sometime in the 1990s when Ireland got rich, we decided to import Plastic Paddy’s Day from America complete with marching bands, pom poms and all the rest. Although, unlike our more-Irish-Catholic-than-the-Irish-Catholics brethren in New York, we actually allow gay people to take part too!!! Because we’re so white and we enjoy any form of diversity in a country where racial tolerance consists of forcing ourselves not to swear at Krysztof or Enugu who we pay sub-minimum wage rates to to serve us in petrol stations.

If you want to see a real St. Patrick’s Day, stay in New York or Chicago, because Irish St. Patrick’s Day is as plastic and fake as it comes. I still enjoy the day off work and getting drunk, though…

hahahahahaha!!! I find this so funny to read b/c 1. americans think that for a day they can pretend to be something they arent. and 2. b/c im irish and watching my non irish friends celebrate this holiday is fanfreakintastic!
flogging molly inChi town on st. patty’s day! be there!!

Irish-Americans are HILARIOUS. It seems all white people in your country is so desperate not to be “just another white person” that they cling to any and all other spurious ethnic roots that they can. Hey, I’m not an Anglo-Saxon, I never oppressed nobody! My great, great grandfather was apparently from a place called Galway in Ireland (must pronounce it Ire-Land), and his name was O’something!

The American ‘Polish’ are also hugely funny in this regard, as are Italian-Americans.

You’re just another American, that’s all. Get used to it. The real Irish/Polish/Italians laugh at you. You’re nothing like them, you’re a yank. Enjoy your green beer.

Right on the money. Don’t forget your fake Irish brogue: another surefire St. Paddy’s Day white person’s tradition. “What county are ye from?” is an effective opening line when delivered in said brogue

And while you’re out at the “pub” on St. Pat’s Day, don’t forget to periodically spout a pro-IRA platitude like “Give Ireland back to the Irish” or something equally inane…this is quite possibly be the only time of the year where you can win cool points by praising a terrorist organization that has slaughtered thousands of innocent people!

Ummmm, No. Yes, St. Patrick was a very important missionary at the time, but to say he restored Christianity to the entire world is a bit of a stretch!

About the racist thing, the funny part about this site is that the folks it good-naturedly pokes fun at don’t necessarily have to be Caucasian! My buddy’s girlfriend, who is Chinese (yes, born there) does about half the annoying things on this site. Ditto for my friend from college who is black, but grew up in a rich suburb of NYC, and is accurately described by pretty much almost everything here!

Calm, down profit! Let’s get drunk on St. Patty’s Day! I’m not Irish either!

The second bit didn’t make any sense, however if your only link to Jamaica is that your great grandfather or just your grandfather was from there then guess what: you’re not.

Re. “African” trust me, there is/has been some just as funny shit going on amongst African Americans. The Nation Of Islam are ridiculous for instance. Wear a fez and a bowtie, pick a name that sounds vaguely arabic – congrats, you’re now an honourary African/Arab! The same goes for everyone playing at being pretend africans – you can wear African clothes and talk about “mother Africa” as much as you like, you’re still from Detroit, so was your father and his father before him, and have absolutely no real connection to the place. The Hiphop scene is pretty funny like that. It’s understandable though.

White Americans are another kettle of fish though, they weren’t uprooted unjustly from their homelands.

I suppose it says something about America’s homogeneity: your country is huge, yet despite a few regional differences your culture is the same throughout, so you invent spurious differences so you can claim to be unique. Maybe a hundred years ago or more a few Americans could say they were Irish with a degree of truth, now it’s mostly just a people playing at it. For second, third, or forth generation immigrants to go around wearing their “cultural heritage” like a badge of pride is pretty silly. The Sri-Lankan working in K-Mart that just came off the boat has more right to celebrate his differing ethnic status than you do.

St Pats day in London is a joke! They now have a parade like in NYC and is basically sponsored by Guinness, it should be called St Guinness day. I hate it. You don’t see the Scots, Welsh and English making a fuss about their St day.
Oh yes, and I did see a couple of young honkies wearing shorts and flipflops yesterday, it was about 4 degrees. It’s usually Aussies who do this, complete with Fat Face hoodie and beanie hat!??

Me personally, I HATE St. Patrick’s Day. Nothing against the Irish (and St. Partick was not Irish) but I always refuse to wear green just because it’s freaking March 17th! I spent St. P’s in 1997 in Boston, and THAT was an interesting experience, I must say. Damn glad there was rapid transit available since the streets were (otherwise) impassible.
I DO like Guinness, though. 🙂

Or the Sri Lankan posing as a rap-singer (MIA) and all the “hip” folks loving her music totally obvlious that Sri Lanka is even a country. Better yet, ask them how far Ceylon is from Sri Lanka and see how they respond (correct answer DOES exist, but it is in years not physical space). The “Ethnic American” is an interesting topic to ponder, and cultural exclusivity is a fact. Consider “Cajuns” as a case-in-point. French, in one regard, but just as much African as anything else. Would a “white” Cajun acknowledge “African” cultural ties? Not likely. But if “Joe the Cajun” likes his music, authentic, he’s got a Carribean beat with African tempo. My “people” are as UK as it comes, but there is clearly no culturally homogenious bond that ties them together. Scots don’t like English who hate Irish who won’t talk to Welch. Go figure in a land smaller than Texas with no-fewer than five languages.

IF you don’t think Americans retain their ethnic identity for generations, you’ve never been to Baltimore, MD. There are still pockets of TRUE Italians, Czechs, Poles, Ukes etc… For that matter, Pittsburg remains a town full of ethnic pockets even today. I guess if one moves away from “home” that his/her ethnic ID may become dilluted.

First, I am of French-Canadian heritage. And yes, my great-grandfather was from Quebec. French as a ‘spoken-at-home’ language died out with my grandmother. But there are still small things that are traditional. Fridays, and even Saturdays, family would come out of the woodwork (read cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents, god-parents, second cousins, cousins twice removed, etc.) , play cards, drink, and generally joke around. Also, my whole family (Texan mother excluded) were named for saints, in the Roman-Catholic tradition.

Also, Guinness should be it’s own category, because I have not yet met an American who didn’t like it. I don’t get why people take more than one sip, because it after wards tastes like crap.

So your saying if some “white person” offered you free food and spirits on this magical day you would refuse? Everyone should be proud of who they are and were there family is/was from. If they want to drink till they fall over and wear all the green clothes in their closet let them do it. I have never seen any black people party with us White Folks on St. Patty’s day. It isn’t that you aren’t invited so bring it and let’s all party up! Then you might understand what it is all about! Come on the Mexicans love it! haha

Sadly, St. Patricks day is not celebrated in Ireland as it is here in the states-they spend the day in church. Maybe there was a mix-up in translation from gaelic to american; we thought they said drink dyed beer at the bar instead of pray at the church. As a decendant of irish blood(50%)-it would seem that I would go nuts on St. Patty’s day but I’m white now so everythings ok. Also, I’m neither catholic or protestant but my family has been planning a trip “home” to see our roots for 10 years now and my husband has beefed up his pedigree from 1/7 irish to only claiming his irish blood. That’s the kind of obnoxious behavior us whities are known for! Bring on the green beer baby!

If you’ve been to Ireland, especially Dublin, you’ll know they damn well celebrate the day in exactly the same way it is celebrated in North America…. a big parade followed by 12-16 hours straight in the pubs, surrounded by drunks. I hope this comment has sufficiently humbled anyone who’s never been.

Believe it or not…Guinness is different in Ireland. I’ve been to the Guinness factory 4 times and they teach you about their history, brewing process, etc. One thing you learn is that they are like Coca Cola in that they tailor their beer to the country they are sending it to. The US version is watered down according to their own definition because that is what most Americans like. This is not myth…it is fact.

I’m 100% irish ancestry, but I can’t say that I really think anything of it. All these dudes bragging about “where they came from” whether it be Ireland or Poland or Italy or whatever seem to forget one simple thing: you were born and raised in America. If you or your parents didn’t move over here from there, then you have virtually zero connection to your “homeland” at all whatsoever….I don’t see what’s so bad about embracing the fact that you’re a citizen of one of the most powerful nations to ever exist in human history.

…and even that paragraph sounded pretentious. God, is there no escape from the plight of the white man?

I am proud to say that I am 100% Irish and that is probobly one of the things i like besat about myself. And as for the “you’re white now”, comment; that’s completely ridiculous. Honestly, my being white (and having a common Irish last name) hurts me more for things such as getting into college because I am considered to be run-of-the-mill, not diverse. White people have problems too.

My born-in-Ireland grandparents were dirt poor, only had 6th grade educations and believed everything the Catholic Church told them. My family’s f- up’d and I think it has a lot to do with us being of Irish descent. So yeah, the oppression of my ancestors did trickle down to me.

Ya well I am from ireland im there right now and ive never left and opression never trickled anywhere it only created needless violence in da north and a hatred of da english, but were just normal people who just got on wit it
“oh im american but dont hold it against me!” too bad i already am

WOW!!
I can’t believe the tirades that people go off on here. This site is obviously not meant to be taken seriously.

Anyhow, As an AMERICAN with a strong ancestral heritage based on Irish Catholics leaving Ireland, I do get a bit miffed on Saint Patrick’s Day. (throw in other religious holidays that have nothing to do with being Irish too, i.e. Saint Valentine’s Day)
Along with Saint Brigid’s Day, St. Columba’s Day (and saints of my other heritage) I do go to Church on Saint Patrick’s Day. I enjoy traditional Irish music anytime, but it’s nice to hear on Saint Patrick’s Day as well. As with any other time I have it available, I drink Guinness, along with Harp or Smithwick’s and Magner’s Irish Cider (yeah, we can’t call it Bulmers here) on Saint Patrick’s Day. I also enjoy my Irish whiskeys and the differences between them. Tullamore Dew being my fave.

So, OK, I’m rambling. But along with friends of mine from Ireland, I find it a little upsetting that a bunch of folks who do not believe in the Patron of Saints think that listening to Dropkick Murphy’s and drinking green beer til they get shit faced makes them “Irish” one freakin day out of the year. They do provide tons of amusement though when they can’t walk and puke all over themselves!!

this site is hilarious and this topic hits home for me. i’m irish-american, i play irish music and, with dual citizenship, travel back and forth between the u.s. and ireland with ease and frequency. when i’m in the u.s. for st. patrick’s day, i stay home unless i’ve gotten a gig that pays more than $1,000 and is sure to be free of drunken college kids acting like assholes. seriously, if your in a bar on st. patrick’s day and yelling “i’m irish today”, you should beer bong a bottle of bushmills so, hopefully, your liver explodes and the rest of us civilized people can start having some fun on the holiday.

u idiots.. the site is laughing @ you taking st patricks day too serious by over analizing you roots,, sure enuff a few of u qualified this thought by looking deep into your past and referring to ireland. someone even mentioned their messed up families!!!!

SO, YOUR WHITE NOW!!!! << opps i wasnt suppose to mention this!! I forget many of you were “oppresed” !!! ha ha!!!

St. Patrick’s day is great everyone turns green (Irish) for a few days. And like the “mmmm, I know it sounds cliché, but it really is true. Guinness just tastes better in Ireland.” Idea, I’m off to give it a try now.

Ah yes, st patricks day… the anniversary of the day that the CCTer met up again with the CCTee (er = giver and ee = receiver). Anyway, things ended poorly on this day once again–a bar full of vomit, a random walk around campus with Jimbo, and furthermore, no closure to the past tragedy. The tragedy as you may already know that dealt with the creation of the CCT (The Cormier Cock Tease). Sigh, I watch California Suites on repeat to forget this terrible ordeal.

Oh shit. Busted. I came thiiissss close to making Irish soda bread with my daughter today (St. Patrick’s Day). Thank goodness I was out of flour. I’ve never actually had it before (if that counts for anything). Although…I will shamefully admit that I am wearing a silver bracelet that has icons on it that chart the history of Ireland. My mother bought it for me from…gulp….QVC.

but i actually do hate st. patrick’s day…maybe it will make a difference when i’m old enough to get drunk legally, but till then i never wear green on st. paddy’s and i make death threats to any asshole who tries to get away with a fake irish accent.

Aaah [enlightenment]. I never understood why St Patrick’s day was such a big deal. I come from a place where a lot of people do have Irish ancestry [actual as opposed to assumed for self enrichment] and where social alcoholism is normal, so I just assumed that was the reason. But it’s really colonial guilt – that makes much more sense….

There’s only one way to make st patricks day for real. Have a white person party. haha, that will make everything better in your life. Just have sweet party at your new home right here at http://www.cornerstonehomesofutah.com.

In many ways St. Patrick’s Day has been turned into a shallow commercialized holiday but you don’t have to celebrate it that way. Growing up Irish-Catholic March 17th meant an hour in church and seeing my extended family. I’d say that’s pretty close to what the holiday was originally meant to be.

Yes, it can seem like there is little point when people with Irish ancestry complain about ancestors’ oppression, but it is important to realize that there are still people being oppressed in Ireland.
840 years 1 month 29 days unfree (accounting for shifting calendars)

Yeah, Americans would be able to talk shit on that score if their own country weren’t stolen from the massacred indigenous population and built via the blood and sweat of black slaves, the descendants of which haven’t even been truly free for a hundred years yet.

“Free Ireland” – from whom? The terrorist gangsters abhorred by 99% of the population who continue to try to further their stupid old war that everyone else has gotten past a long time ago? You know nothing. An American can say the words “Free Ireland” when centuries of genocide and oppression have been paid for and whitey’s the one that lives in a reservation. Go chug a green beer and stfu.

Along with your Guinness comment, the one thing you can say on St. Patrick’s Day to elicit immediate praise and respect from the white people in your local Irish bar would be the always handy, “Everyone’s Irish on St. Patty’s Day.”

I WANT A MILLION DOLLARS!!! Can one million RICH WHITE PEOPLE send me one dollar apiece, puh-lease????

I don’t want money from any Asians, or Blacks or Hispanics. You guys NEED your money. I only want one dollar apiece from RICH WHITE PEOPLE who seem to WASTE their money like drunken leprechauns on St. Patrick’s Day.

Waste it on me instead. Thanks so much! (First person who comments “You ARE a waste.” is a rotten egg. You thought it. I know you did. Stop lying. See? I knew it.)

the fact that u can say that the irish were suppressed and we today still bitch even though todays generation were never saw these days and they have no right to complain. And yet blacks can not stop talk about being slaves and how they were suppressed , and in all fairness they were, but today not one black slave is alive. wut did the irish do after being oppressed they created the republic of ireland, moved to new york build sky scrappers never seen before. what did the blacks do they moved to ghettos, and yolanda can still bitches about how the white man made blacks slaves.

this shoudlnt be “stuff white people like” this should be “stuff americans like,” i hate to brake it to all the europeans out there, but most of you are technically white too lol
basically this site is saying that only americans are considered “white”

It’s the new P-C code speak for “yeah, black people are like Africans alright” or “you can integrate/assimilate/convert a person to the white culture, but they never change”. That race is a construct by social or tribal customs, but biological or genetic tracking indicates groups of people do exist and geographical human geneotypes are traced to a country. +

damn…and all I had is green milkshakes, get out the green food coloring and you got some shakes for St. Patricks day. I’m not even abit Irish, perhaps a Scotch-Irish ancestor from Ulster, Northern Ireland and most likely Protestant. I’m hafl-French and by what I read, St. Patrick was from Gaul (Roman France) was originally sold a slave to Britainica.

Let’s all act like Irish: sing, fight, dance, drink, starving, being poor, ragged, worship pagan deities known as the “Virgin Mary” and all that Celtic pride. 150 years ago, the English thought the Irish are animals, primates, Africans or a cult against “her majesty” and the Church of England.

Today, this would be racist despite the white Irish are said to be the lightest-skinned, look their faces are full of ginger: freckles. The red hair is a sign of “whiteness” and many are blue or green-eyed, not as green as the Emerald Isle, but hey, everyone is Irish today than 150 years ago. I see how nobody wants to be “Mexican” on Cinco de Mayo.+

Barak O’Bama? Yeah, ha ha funny (sarcasm). He’s probably one of the “black Irish”. John F. Kennedy and his family are the “Lace curtain Irish”, not enough pot o’ gold (J/K, they are filthy rich). The anti-Irish sentiment in England/Britain was one of the reasons for public secular celebrations of St. Patricks’ Day to be proud of Irishness while the group was outcasted by the English (Anglo-Saxon) establishment. +

I know a very un PC joke (prepared to be offended):
What’s the difference between St. Patrick’s day and Martin Luther King Day?
Everyone wants to be Irish on St. Paddy’s (Patrick’s).

You may well be part-Jewish on Hannukah, part-Rican on Puerto Rican day or part-Vietnamese on the Tet festival (new Years day). White people find it convenient to be 1/16 Irish for a 24 hour day, but has no clue on the Irish came to America as indentured servants, punished for worshipping the Catholic religion or are literally starving to death. +

Rednecks are more Irish than the Kennedys, but taught the Irish were saved by Jezus to stop being them Popists and proved they are white enough to start treating the black plantation slaves very badly. Same goes to 1850’s gold rush-era California when the newly arrived Irish miners and railroad workers fought and brawled with the Chinese, and how the Irish tried to avoid being around other Catholics or Jewish immigrants moving into the Lower East Side, NYC until the end of the 19th century. Irish have “self-hatred” of being who they are? I think so. +

The Lost Irish of Quebec, my French language teacher in high school told me on a large Irish imprint in Quebec is present. Her parents came from Italy after WWII settled down in Montreal’s neighborhood known as “Le Petit Italie” and she grew up in a trilingual environment before moving to the US as a teenager. She speaks some Chinese, Serbo-Croatian and Spanish, in part she’s a linguist. Parts of the Ontarioan interior has an Irish-speaking organization to help and promote the Irish Gaelic tongue in North America. +

What urks me about cosmopolitian whites of the elite like Justin C Lander here (I kid you not) is the homogenization of America is over, multiculturalism and diversity is the rule, and if you’re black be black, you’re Asian be Asian, Latino be Latino, etc. except there are hundreds of African groups, 50 Asian nations and 20 Latin American countries. I rather be celebrating Bastille Day every July 14th in Dad’s house, instead of pretending to be Irish every March 17th, LOL.+

Is that what made Louisiana and New Orleans renowned to the world? Cajuns, a subgroup of departed Acadien French down to the Mississippi delta and gulf coast 250 years ago. There are still thousands of Acadiens in Maine, US and New Brunswick, Canada stayed in their lands after the British takeover. French culture in North America remains intact, one reason why you have a Quebecois identity. +

The origin of Irish “drunks” came from the 19th century Protestant Yanks in the social-religious movement to ban alcohol in the USA, known as Prohibition (1920’s to repeal in 1933). The stereotypical Catholic immigrant was seen as drinking, also the puritanical view of alcohol was immoral and to add in the anti-Catholicism of Irish “pagans” whom remained Catholic after English king Henry the 8th declared a new Church of England (the Anglicans) in 1550. +

The self-name of Irish people in Gaelic is “Eireann”, almost close to the notorious word “Aryan”. Is this part of the so-called Aryan Nations thing of white kids proud to be Irish, not Germanic or “white” skinned? I thought the Germanics and Vikings fought the Celts (esp. Irish) to near extinction. The Romans also done the same throughout Gaul (France) except a peninsula on the Northwest tip of France known as Brittany or Brita, where a Celtic-speaking group remains (the Bretons) to this day. +

Jews are described a religious group, while the Irish are a nationality from an island…and black Americans due to the skin color issue. One of the things divides people into each group: in Canada, the Anglophone and Francophone over a person’s native language. +

One St. patrick’s day tradition to school children in the US is to pinch people for not wearing green. How cruel & sadistic is that? I have fun seeking a four-leaf clover in the school campus lawn (no luck). +

Well I’m actually from Ireland and have lived here all my life. Just thought I’d put that out there. OH and I have never eaten corned beef, we don’t actually eat that. And guiness is better in Ireland, don’t ask me why but it just is…

let tell you gaelic is a crazy language. my name is eoin but its pronounced owen. Even though I can speak it fluently I still don’t understand why some letters arent pronounced.

White Jews are white. While we’re on the subject, being a white Jew is the best. You get all the perks of not feeling guilty about history, but at the same time people are not secretly afraid of you. Also, people will pull out the whole “I know your heritage thing” when they find out you’re Jewish. They’ll be like, “I had a friend who’s Jewish. He’s so funny.” (White people find Jews hysterical.) Then they’ll mention how attractive they find Israelis. Telling someone that you’re Jewish is a very interesting scientific transformation. The conversation instantaneously transforms from “conversation with fellow white person,” to, “conversation with minority.” Pure gold.

We came a long way since the 1850’s when the Irish are portrayed as primates in newspapers such as the Times in London or New York city. At the same time, Charles Darwin wrote an earth-shattering book “The origin of species” to be used for nationalistic purposes in both America and the UK to describe “the Irish, Africans and Amerindians” are closer to apes than “white Anglo-saxon Aryan” nonsense. +

Irish Dinner parties should come with a notice on the RSVP letter: “Etiquette will be strictly enforced. No man will get into my mouth unless you wash off your meat (unless you’re Irish. I love to clean off dirty Irish dicks with my mouth, but you have to have on green). Leprechauns can just come in my ass for free.

What the fuck!!!!! all comments that i have read are bullshit. How whites this and how whites that , and how whites are racists and how can whites be oppresed by another .

The only thing certain and i mean certain not every black person is yepping about is racism and how you musn’t say anything even closely resembling to colour or else you are racist. If you are a blck person that was born lets say in 70’s or 80’s even before , how the fuck did you feel the oppresion or slavery ?

“Most of the time, white people consider celebrations of European heritage to be racist unless they omit large swathes of the 16th through 20th centuries. But since the Irish never engaged in colonialism and were actually oppressed it is considered acceptable and encouraged to celebrate their ancestry. For this reason, 100% of white people are proud to claim that they are somewhat Irish.”

Seriously…you’re kidding? What a bunch of crap, there is no social taboo against European celebrations, just the so-called white pride demonstrations involving skinheads and klan robes are the kind of white European celebrations of racist hatred the blogger was pointing out (or so he says).

In the southeast, confederate flags and other historic symbolry of the old south may be frowned upon or divides people (white, that is), it is common knowledge about the southern heritage involved a sense of victimhood and alienation of the rural (and mostly white) underclass.

“A big part of St. Patrick’s Day is having white people feel particularly upset at the oppression of their ancestors that has in no way trickled down to them. If you find yourself talking with a white person who tells you about how their great grandfather was oppressed by both the English and the Americans, it is strongly recommended that you lend a sympathetic ear and shake your head in disbelief. It is never considered acceptable to say: “but you’re white now, so what’s the problem?” ”

Any white person without Irish ancestry can say sh*t to get sympathy on “our Irish (Catholic) background was disliked, oppressed and hated”. Is there a lesson on all of this? The concept of racism and ethnic bias affects everyone, we can go on about how the Jews feel on their experiences in Germany, Bosnians whom lost their family in the 1990’s war and Koreans had Japan colonize their land with brutality.

What about PC rule #997 (random number) do not bring up the issue to someone of another group about being a member of another group. You can’t approach a tourist from (oh let’s say Northern Ireland) on how wonderful it must be to be Irish. You’re gonna be mega-offensive and just plain stupid on the Irish are “always treated good” when in historical fact the “white” Irish Catholics have struggled.

Eh, eoin, speak for yourself. I eat corned beef all the time, man. And letters can be silent in all languages. AAAH. Stop showing yoursef up.
Plus, well done for the “Gaelic”. Yeah, we all took Irish for the leaving cert. Bravo.

Just to let you know, EVERYBODY, thats right, EVERYBODY, in the world, came from the EXACT SAME people. We all are the same, who cares what the hell you look like. We are all people. We are no better than any one else, no worse. You should be judged on your moral values and not the color of your skin, or your hair.
Does it really matter what we look like anyway?

How about, nobody in this country that is alive felt the kind of slavery and oppression that we are talking about. So lets drop the feel bad for me story of mainly the blacks, native americans, and even whites. That was our ancestors and times have changed, we havent felt shit but a damn headache from people bitching about things they never encountered and getting a bill to pay people for their ANCESTORS suffering. Just damn pathetic…Pick YOURSELF up and quit surrendering to unseen pain.

That’s because St. Patrick’s Day is not a religious holiday, and certainly not a Catholic holiday, in the US.

If you weren’t so white, you would understand this paradox. True white people are blind to it, however. To them, Irishness is just…so…well, cool is the only word! Because don’t they, like, party a lot or something?

The blacks and Chinese were just as involved in American engineering projects if not more so. In a lot of cases they were ignored and excluded from the photographs you see nowadays, because they did not present the right image. Yes the Irish were oppressed but, not so much in the US, a drop in the ocean compared with other races.

b) I have never been to Ireland 😦 but my mom says that Guiness is really gross in Europe because it is served at room temp. However, the Ireland comment is GREAT because you can appear elitist when the real fact of the matter is, most people just don’t really care for Guiness!!!!

c) Flogging Molly IS BETTER that Dropkick Murphys. Once again, any day of the year!!!!

d) last but not least…… I look super cute in Green!!!

Whether you’re drinking, a red headed step child, or just don’t want some irritating person to pinch you, Happy St. Patty’s day y’all!!!!

my grand father was irish and married a native american in NY and I dont even own a single green clothing either but i have a tattoo that has green in it so there you go get a tattoo with some green and you never have to worry. LOL

I’m Irish – born, raised and living here – some of the worst Guinness I’ve ever tasted was served in Dublin, while one of the best was in a country pub in … guess where … England. Geography makes absolutely no difference to the quality of Guinness, any more than it does to the taste of a Big Mac

All the rich suburban yuppies need to get out of Southie and stop calling themselves Irish. First you devastate a generation of teenagers by busing them to Roxbury, and now when no one has a job because the kids dropped out back then, you drive the property values through the roof. Leave our neighborhood alone!

What I have found is that, along with 100% of white people claiming to have Irish heritage, they also claim to have some percentage of Native American heritage. Native Americans have been persecuted and screwed over by Europeans in America for so long and been silent about it, that every white person feels like it is their duty to feel sorry for them, even claim that they have some in their family. I love when a pale, fair complected blonde haired, blue-eyed white claims to be 1/3 Cherokee.

But when is the last time you heard a white person who, say, possibly has some black in their family willingly admit it?

As for the Irish ancestry claims, the Irish are seen as belligerent, tough-guy upstarts who love to drink (hence Americans claiming they can drink anyone under the table if they THINK they have an Irish background, or any surname that starts with “Mc” or “Loy”) and fight. Here is an excerpt from a Joan Aiken (who is ACTUALLY from the U.K.) story explaining a British immigrants encounter with a group of Irish folk: “They came on board barefoot, gazing about them like jungle animals that have been rounded up by the hunter. They wore rags, their heads were shaggy, they had no belongings, and they spoke a language that nobody could understand…Their eyes were blue and rolling, like bits of the sky, they seemed to have no focus…they were used to fighting for all they had, the women pushed in front with elbows and fists, battling to be the first for whatever was coming, and the men were drunk most of the time-they were yelling, singing, and dancing from dawn to dusk.” (Aiken 12)

I’d just like to point out that in 432 St Patrick didn’t bring Catholicism to Ireland, he brought Christianity to Ireland… and as an Irish-American (in the sense of having one Irish parent and one American parent- raised mainly in Europe), “Irish-Americans” are among the most irritating of all white people! You think it’s awful when they try to understand your culture? See how it is when they think it’s THEIR culture!

Very funny, but bashing the plastic paddy syndrome has been done to death. Listen, the truth of the matter is due to a lack of long standing and defined American culture and the melting pot make up of its citizens Americans of all breeds, creeds, and attitudes latch on to other ethnic traditions. When your nation’s greatest claims to fame post frontier are jeans, Jaws, and the Big Mac there is nothing wrong with spending a day here or there celebrating the notion of being someone else. Further, the Irish and others complaining about it should count their blessings. I don’t know of any other culture in the world holding drinking contests on Columbus Day to celebrate the wonderful story of America. Usually foriegn gatherings relating to the U.S. involve burning flags and weaponry.

As a Pagan, I’m a bit skeptical about celebrating St. Patricks Day who I can only recognize as one who was prostilitizing the Druids into converting to Christianity. It just doesn’t add up to being an honest biblical story since Christianity is deep rooted from Paganism. The beer and parties are something that do kinda have me reconsidering sometimes.

I’m a red haired fiery blooded easily sunburned Irish man and I can tell you, over here, we love all Paddies, plastic, pewter or otherwise

But please remember we are not a race, we’re a nation. So as far as we are concerned anyone can be Irish, in fact we encourage it. We even invented a feckin’ day for you people to try it out.
So if on Paddy’s Day you develop a taste for being Irish feel free to consider yourself one of us!
And if you feel the need to get a passport or buy a Riverdance DVD or even smother yourself in green body paint while emptying the local pub into your liver you’re of course welcome to it.

Really.Go mad. We won’t try and stop you.

Aspirants can relax, becoming Irish is easy! Any vague wish or silent declaration is enough to do it.

Don’t worry being Irish isn’t hard, no special training’s required We don’t have a reading list or an entrance exam. We’re not even all that good at taking attendance
And drinking, while not mandatory, is a lot of fun. (We recommend to anyone who doesn’t want to be Irish too.)

Better yet you can stop being Irish any time you like!
It’s just as easy and we promise not to pursue apostates.

There’s only one rule, added after some past… unpleasantness.
Anyone can be Irish (or not), just please, don’t fight.

That’s okay, no one wants to be Irish anyway, not even the Irish.
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To be Irish, one should know their ethnic history and nation identity. Irish people are originally Celtic, their presence in the British isles goes back over 3000 years…and Ireland is the sole Celtic majority republic in the world. I’m sure the Welsh and Scots are on their way declaring independence from the British crown soon. The Irish are fascinated with pre-Christian folklore and tradition, their language revived in a country that is 80-90% English-speaking dominant and the Roman Catholic church has extended powers on some important legislation in the government, therefore not much separation between church and state than in the US.

To quote this excerpt from a post by Ron Williams –
“I love when a pale, fair complected blonde haired, blue-eyed white claims to be 1/3 Cherokee. ”
You can encounter plenty of mixed-race Cherokee/American Indian people like what you describe, but they can have a genetic dominance of dark hair, brown eyes and tan skin while they are 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, 1/6 and rarely, 1/8 Cherokee. Many Cherokees in the US encounter questions, comments and mistaken identity from white Americans “You look like a Mexican, are you part-Japanese?” or “You can’t be Indian!” I thought they would be treated like a black person, except white people desired to have a bit of ‘Injun or ‘redskin than to be a “Negro or mulatto”, to descend from a plantation slave carries a heavy burden and social stigma to this day in the US (esp. in the Deep South or mid-Atlantic states).

this comment is not true. the irish language is very weak and the catholic church has an ever weaking influence. irish people are also fascinated by the English Premier League in a much more obvious why than any celtic traditions

listen you freeloading, bout to be deported, shower needin pasty faced green jelly bean. im in the last full blooded irish generation here in america and i have grown really tired of you and your fellow drunken brethren from the old country acting as if irish americans are the worst thing that ever happened to you. at least our ancestors had the sense to leave a country where there was no food or is it that they had the balls to leave home. not climb on a eire airlines with a ticket pappy bought either but cram into a cattle car with a captain drunker than dean martin on new years eve kind of balls. so dont be pissed and embarrassed bc we got here first and through outdoor labor (ya we were oppressed haha) and taking care of our bodies by not drinking toddys with bfast became kennedy pretty while you still look like some misshapen cave dweller. you can actually look at that family to visualize the transformation i speak of; go from honey fitz (you) to jack (me) and you can see for yourself. i know i know we talk about the war and the british and have no real concept of what we are talking about. if you were raised surrounded by insane drunken women who at the end of the day claimed that all of their problems could be traced back to the british bc that is what her drunken irish mother (probable the last one to ever have set foot on that mossy rock you call home) that is what to blame everything on you might have a skewed image of the biggest bully in europe as well. i am beginning to see as the rest of europe seems to be in sync with, that the real problem is with the lazy drunks in your country. so stop whining about how we are the problem, after all when you compare what irish americans have accomplished to what the REAL irish have accomplished its pretty funny. presidencies, “heavyweight” championships, comedians, non whiny writers, supreme court justices, etc. . so have bono and you can have sean hannity back, and riverdance with his narrow minded ass back across the pond so you can sing stupid songs like my grandmother did, im an american. like the chicago bears it looks like all the talent left that island a long time ago.

to the people talking about mixed races and people not appearing to be a non-white race, maybe check out the book “The Color Line.” Sorry folks, it hasn’t been made into a major motion picture yet, but if it had it would feature a character who looks completely white but is in fact half black. Its a true story and the dude who wrote it(and incidentally is the star of it) is the president of CCNY.

So yes, while someone who looks like they were part of hitlers master race claiming they’re native american may seem strange, it is quite likely true.

This one is hilarious! It’s like the ultimate ethnic holiday or something. I used to get invited to St P Day parties and assumed that it must be an excuse to celebrate Guinness, green jello shots, dissing the English, and Being White But Not Really Being White But Irish. I think you should also write something about pilgrimages to Ireland. That’s certainly a multi-generational phenomenon, it seems…

True story- Irish-Americans LOVE talking about how goddamn oppressed we are and how much we hate the English. Even if we’ve never been to Ireland. The concept that past racism doesn’t amount to much when you’re now one of the most integrated, normalized, and ‘white’ groups in America doesn’t occur to most Irish-Americans once they start thinking about their Irishness.

Um, dude. The hell? Why the rage at the Irish? Have you ever been over there? It’s not all drunks- hell, I see more drunks in America. Also, the Irish took on the British Empire and won everywhere except Ulster, and had (after a Civil War and a few decades of terrorism) a major economic boom and became a thriving Western European country. Come on. Give them some credit. Of course we did better in America. It’s America, and we’re white.

Actually, Ireland is an increasingly secular country with no great interest in either Catholicism or neo-Paganism, an increasingly diverse population including many eastern Europeans and non-Europeans, very limited Gaeltacht areas. Also, the Celts as a society are gone, leaving only their descendants and remnants of their cultures. Ireland is a social democratic capitalist Republic, and the native Irish (themselves likely descended from invaders) are so interbred with Germanic peoples that they have no genetic distinction from the English. Also, the Welsh independence movement is weak, and the Scots not much stronger.

All these comments are showing mixed feelings towards the celebration that occurs on this day each year. Some of you have been talking down on white because they are celebrating an “illegitimate” holiday, but this is their heritage. Yes it is true that many of these people celebrating may not have irish ancestors but if all your friends were having a party wouldn’t you want to join in? You are calling this holiday a “white persons holiday” in a negative way but the majority of irish Americans are caucasian which is why it appears to be something white people like.

I think so many people have the impression that all irish are drunks because when they celebrate things (such as St. Patricks day) they like to have a nice traditional irish drink. Yes there are many alcoholic beverages produced by the irish but it is not just Ireland that drinks, Europeans are the world’s top consumers of alcohol so that includes all 47 countries.

Best thing about being Irish in the US is how easy and entertaining it is to fustrate some”irish” American to the point of tears.
Sample conversation:
American: Hey, are you Irish? NO WAY! I’M IRISH!!
Me: NO WAY! Where are you from?
American: Well, I’m originally New Jersey but my grandad came from County Kilkenny.
Me: Oh, so you’re actually American.
American: No way dude, I’m Irish through and through.
Me: But you were born in America. My grandmother was born in France but I’m pretty sure I’m not French.

You can keep this going for as long as need be really, depending on whether you get punched or not.

My friend loves telling people here’s “Irish,” going as far one day to say he was born in Ireland. His parents told him that wasn’t quite true and it made him pouty. Now, wihtout getting too high-brow, he said that his family is from Dublin and he’s Protestant. People do realize there is a difference between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, right?

White people, well all people, also enjoy http://www.NakedHipster.com. Mainly because the girls are hot and don’t have clothes on. Usually those two things go well together. You know, the hotness and the nakedness.

Okay so let me summarize this article: white skin = bad. Doesn’t matter what your individual history is, or what your recent ancestors went through and how hard they worked, all of that is worthless because your skin is pale. Got it

I find it annoying how people that aren’t Irish feel the need to celebrate the tradition as one of their own, like drinking loads, partying, wearing stupid giant Guiness hats (Not just because of the picture…everybody wears them round here) and so much more. >.<

This is because America is such a hodge-podge of heritage that nobody actually associates with being American when they are still in the country. Sure, everyone may be a mut but they feel they have something to cling on to, something more interesting about themselves when they can identify with another culture they really have NO idea about.

When they are tourists somewhere, however, they slap “AMERICAN” all over them in whatever way possible. But when they are actually in their homeland, they are 100% irish…or 95% german….you get my point.

I can see the future: It’s 2035, and whites are no longer a majority–you are merely a plurality in the American demographic spectrum. Your totally mediocre son has just been rejected from Northeast Missouri State University, so you will begin a lifetime of nagging, complaining and outright bitching about “reverse racism” and the sheer oppression you face as a “new minority.”

I agree St. Patricks day is a excuse to get drunk all day but compared to all other cultures holidays it’s pretty harmless.
Sure frat kids run around wearing moronic hats acting like, well, morons. All in all people are having a good time and not only that they want everyone else from all other cultures to celebrate with them. “everyone’s irish on st. pattys day”
Now let’s examine some other cultures holidays…
the west indies days celebration(multiple rapes and stabbings sometimes murders)
puerto rican day( rape and stabbings seems to be the norm at this celebration)
Cinco de mayo is pretty awesome and i enjoy celebrating that holiday, mexicans are pretty simililar to the irish. Hard workers who like to drink.
Speaking of complaining about oppression our ancestors received yet never experienced.
I know of a huge majority of people who pull that card ALL THE TIME.

Ewww! Are you one of those people who live in a whole in the middle of no where claiming that you hate all races who aren’t white. Honestly, God hates you for hating everything he created besides your stupid selves!You guys are disgusting 😦

Think the word is xenophobic Scott. I’m sure you already know that St. Patrick is the patron saint for both predominant Christian denominations in Ireland (Catholic and Protestant). Religion does not equal nationality.

46 European nations, including the Irish…don’t drink as much that Americans expect them to. For one thing, they don’t drink before and during work…and children don’t drink there. Pregnant women are cautioned not to drink either. The USA is the least drinking country below Australia, New Zealand, Canada and I suppose Russia (said to be highest) or Turkey (the least due to their cultural Islamic majority).

Being Irish myself (as in born in Ireland, spent all my life here), I have to tell you that waking up at 7:00 in the morning, taking the day off work, and getting drunk at a bar before 10:00 a.m. is a really Irish thing to do. Of course if you don’t look old enough, you have to do with getting drunk in a field. So if Americans want to pretend to be Irish then doing that is a good start.

People of Irish and Scottish descent are white and were part of the colonizing British as they colonized Asia and Africa. They actually wielded power. In the case of Nigeria, the British like to export colonized laborers from one part of the empire to another, so at the most, Nigerian servants or laborers may have been exported to other parts of Africa or the world. But they were not in a position of power. The oppression of the Irish does not compare to the oppression of the blacks and brown people under white racist colonialism.

Why were the Brits so mental towards the Irish?
The Irish (native/gaels etc etc) were in the eyes of the British commited to letting the Holy Roman Empire use the country as a landing for an invasion of Britain. This fear resulted in the worst case of British behaviour in their preety shabby colonial history:

A quick look at how they tried to deal with this threat posed the native gaels included;

Ethnic Cleansing east of the Shannon River (that sucked)
Forced removal to the west coast (it’s barren out there)
Forced removal to Barbados and Montesurrat as the initial wave of slaves to the newly colonised Caribbean (no sunscreen)
Plantations (thats when you kill people and put your people on their land)

Ireland has a smaller popualtion than it did in 1840 – it and Rwanda are the only documented countries in the northern hemisphere with this instance

For the Irish that benefited and were members of British establishment when they were actively colonising – see the Protestant Ascendancy (descendant of British planters who saw themselves as colonial Britons in Ireland and were given the right to ownership of the country from the native gaels by the British Empire) – native catholics were banned from the being a part of the Irish parliment until the mid 19th century

Scotland became a fully paind up member of the British Empire in the 17th century – Ireland was merely Britains closest colony. And British historians agree was essentially used as a lab to test colonial practices worldwide.

“And British historians agree was essentially used as a lab to test colonial practices worldwide.” (Dean 20/3/12).

Agree totally – did an interesting course on black history many years ago and I’ve got to agree with your sentiment. What I could never get though was why some many black Caribbeans, who were often forced to take the name of their ‘owners’ or overseers, have Irish names.

Just for your information – the Irish name for Ireland, Éire, (genitive = Éireann, an Irish person = Éireannach) has NOTHING to do with the word Aryan: “The modern Irish Éire evolved from the Old Irish word Ériu, which was the name of a Gaelic goddess. Ériu is generally believed to have been the matron goddess of Ireland, a goddess of sovereignty, or simply a goddess of the land. The origin of Ériu has been traced to the Proto-Celtic reconstruction *Φīwerjon- (nominative singular Φīwerjū < Pre-Proto-Celtic -jō).[1] This suggests a descent from the Proto-Indo-European reconstruction *piHwerjon-, likely related to the adjectival stem *piHwer- (cf. Sanskrit pīvan, pīvarī and pīvara meaning "fat, full, abounding"). This would suggest a meaning of "abundant land"."
Aryan comes from the Sanskrit word ārya ('Noble')

I know I should ignore such comments and it was written years ago but anyone who claims to hate the whole Irish populace cos of the IRA needs to be put straight. I also deplore the IRA and do not in any way condone what they did, I am deeply saddened by the fact that they killed innocent people in the name of Irish freedom. However, to deny that Britain committed similar atrocities in Ireland on a much larger scale is horrendous. Of course people in the UK today should not have to feel constantly guilty about what their ancestors did in many parts of the world but they should accept it as the truth and say yes that was awful, I will do everything in my power to make sure it will never happen again. There are no accurate estimates about how many Irish people died at the hands of the British, one source mentions the numbers killed on both sides in the 20th century: “In all, the Provisional IRA and other anti-British paramilitary groups have killed about 2,170 people, including more than 160 of their own members; anti-Irish gangs from Protestant areas killed 1,065, mostly Catholic civilians; the British Army killed 309, the Northern Ireland police 52, and Irish security forces five; and about 100 died in mob violence or unclear circumstances.”The numbers of Irish killed in previous centuries run into several million, (and a few million more if you include the numerous completely unavoidable famines – interesting fact – a Native American tribe, the Choctaws even donated money to Ireland in the mid-19th c during the famine, amazing as they had little themselves and a decade before had suffered terribly when forced to move from their homelands – the ‘The Trail of Tears’). Hundreds of thousands if not millions were killed, for example, under Elizabeth I and again under Cromwell. The Irish were not allowed to own property, or purchase land, land they owned was taken away from them, they were not allowed to speak their language, nor practice their religion, not allowed to intermarry, not allowed have an education of any kind, not allowed vote, there were restrictions on the type of work they were allowed do etc etc.
The saddest of all is that yes the Irish, or at least many of them, who emigrated to America or were deported for crimes to Australia often turned into the biggest bigots and racists of all, they were at the bottom of the pit and had to fight “to advance” in the Anglo-American society, I guess part of that meant doing anything they could to not be associated with Africans (or Native Americans?) – it is shameful (just as the above is shameful for the Brits of earlier years) that they didnt support these people, whose fate they must have at least partly understood, and take a stand against slavery and racism etc., some public figures back in Ireland even called on them to do so!
Anyway enough of the serious stuff, I dislike Paddy’s day, (PaDDy, never PaTTy which is a woman’s name) and hate St. Patrick for bringing bloody christianity to Ireland. Never heard of cabbage and corned beef, that must be a US thing, but cabbage and ham, yes, both boiled to bits, my biggest nightmare as a child. Best Paddy’s day as a kid was when we got Chinese takeaway! Very funny blog 😉

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This is particularly dear to me as I am one half Irish (another half German), and like to celebrate. I mostly don’t celebrate in bars like the mainstream ” white folks” on St. Patrick’s Day, but in the quiet and peace of my own house. It is a healthy and wonderful thing to celebrate one’s heritage and ancestry, and regardless of Patrick’s work to Christianize the people, that’s how I view the day. I’m Irish and I can relate. And I give everyone that is not and cannot relate the grace to do so!

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